Transgression may refer to:

  • Sin, transgression against divine law or the law of deities
  • Crime, legal transgression, usually created by a violation of social or economic boundary
  • In civil law jurisdictions, a transgression or a contravention is a smaller breach of law, similar to summary offence in common law jurisdictions
  • Social transgression, violating a social norm
  • Relational transgression – violation of implicit or explicit relational rules
  • Haram, going beyond Islamic religious restrictions

Science and mathematics

  • Transgression map in cohomology
  • Transgression (geology), a relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
  • Transgression (genetics) or Transgressive segregation, a peculiar case of heterosis, showing extreme phenotypes in a hybrid offspring

Literature

  • Transgressions, a 1997 novel by Sarah Dunant
  • Transgressions, a novel based in the English Civil War by Erastes
  • Transgressions: Volume Two, a short story collection by Stephen King and John Farris
  • Transgressive fiction, a literary style

Film, television, music, and art

  • Transgressive art
  • Transgression (1931 film), a 1931 American film directed by Herbert Brenon
  • Transgression (1974 film), a 1974 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young
  • Transgression (2011 film), a 2011 film starring Michael Ironside, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Jonathan Keltz, and Carlos Bardem
  • Transgression (2017 film), a 2017 Bulgarian film directed by Val Todorov
  • Cinema of Transgression, a film movement using shock value and humor
  • Transgression (album), 2005 release from industrial metal band Fear Factory

See also

  • Transgressive (disambiguation)