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Fetichism

noun
(Written also feticism)
1.
A belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish).  Synonym: fetishism.
2.
Sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs).  Synonym: fetishism.






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"Fetichism" Quotes from Famous Books



... fifty thousand blacks, a large share of them children or grandchildren of those who were brought from Africa, with the wild blood of their fathers scarcely diluted in their veins, with all the old traditions of Fetichism and Obi worship fresh in their minds, altogether uneducated, or at best half educated; consider what virgin soil is here for every vile superstition, what a field for the demagogue to cultivate, and then decide whether it might not be safer, after all, to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various

... misrepresentations which zealous friends of missions have put upon heathenism; and there is always great force in any appeal for fair play, on whichever side the truth may lie. Where the popular Christian idea has presented a low view of some system, scarcely rising above the grade of fetichism, the apologists have triumphantly displayed a profound philosophy. Where the masses of Christian people have credited whole nations with no higher notions of worship than a supreme trust in senseless stocks ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

... feelings,) they made no proselytes. After reading their own account of their efforts, one remains convinced of the difficulties which must stand in the way of conversions from Buddhism. Idolatry, as it is represented in story books for children, under its grossest form of fetichism, may be easily conquered, but the vast spirit of Pantheism is more difficult to grapple with. That Buddhism, as understood by the more enlightened Lamas, is Pantheism, there can be no doubt. All created beings emanate from, and return to, Buddha—the one eternal and ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various



Words linked to "Fetichism" :   paraphilia, belief



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