fetishism

English

Alternative forms

• fetichism (archaic)

Etymology

From fetish +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fetishism (countable and uncountable, plural fetishisms)

1. The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
2. A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
3. An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.

Derived terms

• commodity fetishism
• corpus fetishism
• fat fetishism
• foot fetishism
• transvestic fetishism
• wet and messy fetishism

 

Translations

belief that natural objects have supernatural powers

• Basque: fetitxismo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偶像崇拜 (ǒuxiàng chóngbài)

• Finnish: fetisismi (fi)
• French: fétichisme (fr) m
• Italian: feticismo (it) m
• Spanish: fetichismo (es) m
• Swedish: fetischism (sv) c

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

See also

• Wikipedia article on fetishism
• Wikipedia article on the paraphilia