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单词 fetishism
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Definition of fetishism in English:

fetishism

noun ˈfɛtɪʃɪz(ə)mˈfɛdɪʃɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1A form of sexual behaviour in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc.

    erotic fetishism
    foot fetishism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His portrayal of sexuality had broadened to include same sex and multiple-partner relationships, masturbation, and various forms of fetishism.
    • The artist's subjects - taken mainly from the city's streetlife and bohemian subculture - included portraits and scenes of sexual violence and deviation (particularly shoe fetishism).
    • The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious.
    • The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
    • Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
    • All these evoke the requisite themes of pain, humiliation, bondage and fetishism.
    • Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
    • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
    • The movie is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to "get off."
    • Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object (here an image) is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
    1. 1.1 Excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing.
      a critique of the new technological fetishism
      the fetishism of consumer goods
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Films advocating reforms and criticizing money fetishism amid increasing commercialization in the Chinese society also formed a large proportion of the entries.
      • His obsessive fetishism regarding the JFK case, however, weakens the argument.
      • He is for photography when it attacks the fetishism of the art object, but against it when it celebrates industrial production.
      • The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism.
      • Shots of the dead animal being prepared for its "extended existence" indicate the lead character's fetishism of a "dead" past.
      • This fetishism about scenic detail develops in the 1830s and 1840s.
      • The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
      • Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product.
      • The fetishism of facts has, as the author argues, led history to 'lose sight of its origins in the literary imagination'.
      • The articles satirizes the aggressiveness and food fetishism of the Jewish mother stereotype.
  • 2Worship of an inanimate object for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.

    the fetishism of Aboriginality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.
    • Using the same metaphor, Comte represents fetishism as if the material world were alive in every tree and rock.
    • This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity.
    • He illustrates fetishism with a story of "two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ... this spoon danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance."
    • The French psychologist Alfred Binet adapted de Brosses's religious fetishism to sexual pathology in 1887.
    • Tylor is one of the first to argue that the Comian view of fetishism is oversimplified and that Africans worshiped the spirit that resided in the object, rather than the object itself.
    • He held that West African fetishism was an example of the earliest stage in the universal progression of social development.
    • The most frequent metaphorical vehicle used in representing fetishism is the image of the object that comes to life.
    • The defining feature of fetishism in Tylor remains object-worship.
    • He used the traders' accounts of contemporary "primitivism" to interpret the objects from Egyptian antiquity and, through historical analogy, established the concept of a universal primitive fetishism.
 
 

Definition of fetishism in US English:

fetishism

nounˈfediSHizəmˈfɛdɪʃɪzəm
  • 1A form of sexual behavior in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc.

    erotic fetishism
    foot fetishism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The movie is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to "get off."
    • The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious.
    • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
    • Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
    • The artist's subjects - taken mainly from the city's streetlife and bohemian subculture - included portraits and scenes of sexual violence and deviation (particularly shoe fetishism).
    • Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object (here an image) is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
    • The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
    • His portrayal of sexuality had broadened to include same sex and multiple-partner relationships, masturbation, and various forms of fetishism.
    • All these evoke the requisite themes of pain, humiliation, bondage and fetishism.
    • Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
    1. 1.1 Excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing.
      a critique of the new technological fetishism
      the fetishism of consumer goods
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This fetishism about scenic detail develops in the 1830s and 1840s.
      • He is for photography when it attacks the fetishism of the art object, but against it when it celebrates industrial production.
      • The articles satirizes the aggressiveness and food fetishism of the Jewish mother stereotype.
      • The fetishism of facts has, as the author argues, led history to 'lose sight of its origins in the literary imagination'.
      • His obsessive fetishism regarding the JFK case, however, weakens the argument.
      • Shots of the dead animal being prepared for its "extended existence" indicate the lead character's fetishism of a "dead" past.
      • Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product.
      • Films advocating reforms and criticizing money fetishism amid increasing commercialization in the Chinese society also formed a large proportion of the entries.
      • The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism.
      • The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
  • 2Worship of an inanimate object for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.

    the fetishism of Aboriginality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tylor is one of the first to argue that the Comian view of fetishism is oversimplified and that Africans worshiped the spirit that resided in the object, rather than the object itself.
    • He held that West African fetishism was an example of the earliest stage in the universal progression of social development.
    • He illustrates fetishism with a story of "two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ... this spoon danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance."
    • Using the same metaphor, Comte represents fetishism as if the material world were alive in every tree and rock.
    • The defining feature of fetishism in Tylor remains object-worship.
    • This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity.
    • The French psychologist Alfred Binet adapted de Brosses's religious fetishism to sexual pathology in 1887.
    • The most frequent metaphorical vehicle used in representing fetishism is the image of the object that comes to life.
    • No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.
    • He used the traders' accounts of contemporary "primitivism" to interpret the objects from Egyptian antiquity and, through historical analogy, established the concept of a universal primitive fetishism.
 
 
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