Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being forbidden or prohibited.

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Examples

  • The blogger of And Now the Screaming Starts recently argued that the traditional notion of "forbiddenness" doesn't really explain the appeal of that sort of thing, since almost nothing is actually forbidden today--a view I agree with.

    Archive 2009-05-03 2009

  • Do you agree that we can rule out "forbiddenness" as part of the appeal?

    Archive 2009-05-03 2009

  • Ordinarily, of course, a maiden meeting with a bachelor alone - and over the matter of ovine procreation no less - would be considered verboten or nilzya or whatever the Polish equivalent was before the Nazis and the Soviets routed the language and appropriated all the words for forbiddenness.

    Excerpt: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka 2009

  • To see the relationship simply in these terms is to focus only on the forbiddenness of the relationship.

    Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: II 2009

  • How would you explain the enduring appeal of these elements in a time when forbiddenness isn't much of an issue?

    Archive 2009-05-03 2009

  • This dual non-forbiddenness again does not imply physical ability.

    Rights Wenar, Leif 2007

  • We were too young to understand it exactly but we knew there was something deep and visceral about the energy they generated; we knew it had something to do with forbiddenness, with the promise of sex.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • The forbiddenness of it made it all the more frantic, and then quite suddenly while we were in the dark on my living room couch, I panicked.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • The forbiddenness of it made it all the more frantic, and then quite suddenly while we were in the dark on my living room couch, I panicked.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • The forbiddenness of it made it all the more frantic, and then quite suddenly while we were in the dark on my living room couch, I panicked.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

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