fetishism
/fet-i-shiz-uhm, fee-ti-/US // ˈfɛt ɪˌʃɪz əm, ˈfi tɪ- //UK // (ˈfɛtɪˌʃɪzəm, ˈfiː-) //
拜物教,拜物主义,恋物癖,拜金主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : belief in or use of fetishes.
- : Psychiatry. the compulsive use of some object, or part of the body, as a stimulus in the course of attaining sexual gratification, as a shoe, a lock of hair, or underclothes.
- : blind devotion: a fetishism of sacrifice to one's children.
Examples
Fat fetishism has deep roots for many fat people, especially fat women.
Fetishism of the Zui description is, indeed, the natural concomitant of a totemic system.
One of them is that on which we have just commented, the assimilation between Positivism and Fetishism.
Fetishism forms an important link in the evolution of the mere animistic spirit into the god.
Fetishism, phallicism, animism, and tree- and serpent-worship were very common.
Our beginning is with the prevailing religion of Africa, Fetishism.
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