NOUN
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excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
made a fetish of cleanliness - a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
How To Use fetich In A Sentence
- The scatalogic groups of sexual perversions, urolagnia and coprolagnia, as may be sufficiently seen in this brief summary, are not merely olfactory fetiches. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
- Well, I suppose because of what you would call a fetich," Frida answered laughing. The British Barbarians
- The fetich is a symbol of the desired person, thus the handkerchief and glove of the woman or the hat of the man. The Foundations of Personality
- Instead of being, as we have patriotically supposed, a real progress in human development, it is only a fetich, which is becoming rapidly a failure. Complete Essays
- Now being almost 19 I have a fetich for jockstraps, briefs, etc.
- The English word fetish can be traced back to the medieval Portuguese word fetich, which refers to religious relics believed to possess magical properties. Come Hither
- The word "fetichism" came into the European languages through the work of Charles de Brosses, who, in The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
- The anthropologist calls it "fetichism" when he finds it among primitive peoples. By the Christmas Fire
- The fetichist now follows an impersonal and abstract symbol withersoever it may lead him. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
- This astrolatry, originally a kind of fetichism, became nature-worship, and gradually rose to the worship of the intelligence manifested to our contemplation in the movement of the heavenly luminaries. A Comparative View of Religions