fetishism
or fet·ich·ism
[fet-i-shiz-uh m, fee-ti-]
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noun
belief in or use of fetishes.
Psychiatry. the compulsive use of some object, or part of the body, as a stimulus in the course of attaining sexual gratification, as a shoe, a lock of hair, or underclothes.
blind devotion: a fetishism of sacrifice to one's children.
Origin of fetishism
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I did not think one could be an archaeologist and yet not believe in fetichism.
BalthasarAnatole France
Fetichism, M. Rville also says, is logically a later belief.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological StudyJean-Marie Guyau
The Christians of the middle ages, Dr. Draper says, “were immersed in fetichism.”
The ChristJohn Eleazer Remsburg
Dread of these leads to worship, fetichism, and animism, the beginning of religion.
The Wonders of LifeErnst Haeckel
The constraint of spirits by fear or violence is characteristic of Fetichism.
The Origin of Man and of his SuperstitionsCarveth Read
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fetishism
[fĕt′ĭ-shĭz′əm, fē′tĭ-]
n.
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