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Meanings of erotic fetishism in English

Russian
ретифизм
Portuguese
fetichismo
Spanish
fetichismo
Catalan
fetitxisme sexual
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Sexual arousal a person receives from an object or situation.

ретифизм
Synonyms
Examples for "fetish"
Examples for "fetish"
1
With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
The Moon out of Reach
2
Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
3
On the salvage of a fetish than the winning of the fight.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916
4
For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
Wired
5
She picked up a bear fetish-itsright paw raised, miniature claws exposed.
Wicked lovely
1
Social hygiene fetishism translated readily into pressure for measures to improve 'racial hygiene'.
Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
2
As to fetishism in the Vedas the opinions of the learned are divided.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
3
He let no opportunity slip of jeering at fetishism in art.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
4
Early on, his OnlyFans page was a bacchanal of foot fetishism.
Wired
5
Other outfits took a safer route, but still with a nod to fetishism.
Reuters
1
Primitive man was no more a fetishist than is the modern Catholic.
The Necessity of Atheism
2
A fetishist's someone who's got a fixation on one thing only.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
3
Lester was the rapist; Al was the fetishist who participated vicariously.
Full dark, no stars
4
He was a pyromaniac, a fetishist, a masochist, a sadist and a sex killer.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
5
Black leather, patent leather, corsets, and fetishist whips and sex toys in a drawer.
The girl who played with fire
1
This new version mutes the sexual fetishism that interested previous film-makers, and creates an ending which is exasperatingly ambiguous, as well as rushed.
The Guardian