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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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
But the shops without the attractions also reduced the parks to their most unsavory aspects, that is places that exist as little more to buy products and encourage fetishism among collectors.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2020
“Revenge” begins at a high pitch of travel porn and commodity fetishism.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2018
It is chiefly because these ideas are so closely interwoven in savage thought that it is often so difficult to discriminate between fetishism and animism.
From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John
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