fetishism

English

From fetish +‎ -ism.

fetishism (countable and uncountable, plural fetishisms)

The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
- 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  That's cross-dressing to you and me and, according to Blanchard and the APA, there are two types – fetishism and autogynephilia.
An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.

belief that natural objects have supernatural powers

paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body

Basque: fetitxismo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拜物教 (zh) (bàiwùjiào), 拜物主義 / 拜物主义 (bàiwùzhǔyì), 戀物癖 / 恋物癖 (zh) (liànwùpǐ)
Czech: fetišismus (cs) m
Dutch: fetisjisme (nl) n
Esperanto: fetiĉismo
Finnish: fetisismi (fi)
French: fétichisme (fr) m
German: Fetischismus (de) m
Greek: φετιχισμός (el) m (fetichismós)
Hindi: वस्तुरति (vasturti)
Hungarian: fetisizmus (hu)
Italian: feticismo (it) m
Japanese: フェティシズム (ja) (fetishizumu), フェチ (ja) (fechi)
Korean: 페티시즘 (petisijeum)
Occitan: fetichisme (oc) m
Polish: fetyszyzm (pl) m
Portuguese: fetichismo (pt) m
Romanian: fetișism (ro)
Russian: фетиши́зм (ru) m (fetišízm)
Serbo-Croatian: fetišizam (sh) m
Spanish: fetichismo (es) m
Swedish: fetischism (sv) c