anti-incest

• antiincest

anti- +‎ incest

anti-incest (comparative more anti-incest, superlative most anti-incest)

1. Opposed to incest.
   • 1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys:

     The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements […]

   • 2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449:

     Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).

   • 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be:

     Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.

• anti-incest is several times more common than antiincest in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

• antiinsect