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UK
/fˈɛtɪʃˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈfɛtɪˌʃɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛtɪˌʃɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
- a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
How To Use fetishism In A Sentence
- Films advocating reforms and criticizing money fetishism amid increasing commercialization in the Chinese society also formed a large proportion of the entries.
- Yet this scenario of male sadism and necrophiliac fetishism, this duality of adoration and humiliation does not feel quite right.
- What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
- The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
- Shots of the dead animal being prepared for its "extended existence" indicate the lead character's fetishism of a "dead" past.
- Emerging economies are still prey to what Harvard's Dani Rodrik has called " export fetishism
- The most frequent metaphorical vehicle used in representing fetishism is the image of the object that comes to life.
- The common centre and starting-point of fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism on this view (the 'dispersive' view) of the evolution of religion lies in the heart of man, in a consciousness, originally vague in the extreme, of the personality and superiority to man of the being or object worshipped. Recent Developments in European Thought
- Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
- The French psychologist Alfred Binet adapted de Brosses's religious fetishism to sexual pathology in 1887.