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fetishism /ˈfɛtɪʃɪz(ə)m /noun [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...- Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
- The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
- Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
1.1Excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing: a critique of the new technological fetishism the fetishism of consumer goods...- The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
- 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.
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...- This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity.
- He held that West African fetishism was an example of the earliest stage in the universal progression of social development.
- 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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