fetishism

fetishism

English

Alternative forms

• fetichism (archaic)

Etymology

fetish +‎ -ism

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.

Derived terms

• commodity fetishism
• corpus fetishism
• fat fetishism
• transvestic 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) 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