fetishism
Americannoun
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belief in or use of fetishes.
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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.
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blind devotion.
a fetishism of sacrifice to one's children.
noun
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a condition in which the handling of an inanimate object or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs is a source of sexual satisfaction
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belief in or recourse to a fetish for magical purposes
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excessive attention or attachment to something
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Etymology
Origin of fetishism
Example Sentences
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For all its brutality, the series retains the original’s romance without sliding into its predecessor’s cultural fetishism.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
"We need to be pragmatic and guided by observed data, including underlying inflation, without fetishism for increases that are too mechanical," he added.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
In doing so, he illustrates how a record’s physicality — its texture, weight, composition — inspires such fetishism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
“Revenge” begins at a high pitch of travel porn and commodity fetishism.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2018
Fetish-gods came First.—Till recently the view prevailed that all the religion of the world has sprung out of fetishism.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan
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