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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. 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.