Westermarck

[ wes-ter-mahrk; Finnish ves-tuhr-mahrk ]

noun

1. Ed·ward Al·ex·an·der [ed, -werd al-ig-, zan, -der, -, zahn, -, ed, -vah, r, d ah-lek-, sahn, -d, uh, r], 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.

Example Sentences

There she lived the life of an artist: slept in a garret, worked hard and made lifelong friendships with Helena Westermarck, Maria Wiik and Ada Thilén, whom she called målarsystrarna, her “painter sisters”.

From The Guardian

Certainly, there are exceptions…but the Westermarck Effect is most definitely a real thing, it has very solid scientific support, and such exceptions are exceedingly rare.

From Slate

He was adopted as a two-year-old, and she would have been a newborn, so they would have had just as much of an incest taboo as any biological siblings, thanks to the Westermarck effect.

From Slate

By Helena Westermarck, Critic and Painter ART in Finland, pictorial art, like much else in that country, is a young growth.

From Project Gutenberg

She ought to read Westermarck's History of Human Marriage before she tackles Bebel's Woman.

From Project Gutenberg