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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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
Matthew Walther supports gun rights, but he thinks that the fetishism of AR-15 fandom is dangerous.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
"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
A genre maestro with both a flair and a weakness for grandiose stylistic flourishes, Park seizes upon Hitchcock’s aesthetics of voyeurism and desire and pushes them to new extremes of high-tech fetishism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
And fetishism exfoliated, or peeled off from the religious organism.
From The Idea of God in Early Religions by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
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