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Definition: Fetishism |
FetishismNoun1. A belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish). 2. Sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fetishism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
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In the 19th century Karl Marx appropriated the term to describe "commodity fetishism" as an important component of capitalism. Later Sigmund Freud appropriated the concept to describe a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is an inanimate object or a specific part of a person. See sexual fetish for more details on this concept.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fetishism."
Synonym: FetishismSynonym: fetichism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Idolatry | Noun: idolatry, idolism; demonism, demonolatry; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry. |
Sexuality | Perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality; sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism. masochism, sado-masochism; incest. |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fetishism |
| English words defined with "fetishism": fetishist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fetishism": Fetiche. (references) |
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| "Fetishism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fetishism" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fetishism": Fetishism (Psychiatric). Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fetishism": commodity-fetishism, food-fetishism. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fetishism | 44 |
fetishism free | 27 |
fetishism xxx | 14 |
fetishism foot | 12 |
transvestic fetishism | 7 |
fetishism leotard | 5 |
commodity fetishism | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fetishism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 拜物教 . (various references) | |
Danish | toilet-fetichisme (lavatory fetishism). (various references) | |
French | fétichisme. (various references) | |
German | fetischismus. (various references) | |
Greek | δεισιδεμονία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fetisizmus, fetisizálás, fétiskultusz. (various references) | |
Italian | feticismo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フェザー級 (featherweight, federation, festival, fetch, phenylketon, phoenix), 拝物教 , 呪物崇拝 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェティシズ , じゅぶつすうはい, はいぶつきょう. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etishismfay.(various references) | |
Romanian | fetişism. (various references) | |
Russian | фетишизм. (various references) | |
Spanish | fetichismo de retrete (lavatory fetishism). (various references) | |
Swedish | fetischism. (various references) | |
Turkish | fetişizm. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bái vật giáo (fetichism), đạo thờ vật (fetichism). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fetishism": fetishisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fetishism" (pronounced fe"tishi'zum) |
| 5 | -sh i' z u m | fascism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | absenteeism, absolutism, abolitionism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, satanism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-i-i-m-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fishiest, smithies. | |
-2 letters: misfits, mitises, semifit, stimies, theisms. | |
-3 letters: feists, fetish, fishes, heists, isthmi, misfit, misset, shiest, shifts, smites, smiths, stimes, theism, thesis, tmesis. | |
-4 letters: emits, feist, fists, hefts, heist, hests, hists, issei, items, meths, metis, mises, mists, mites, mitis, seifs, seism, semis, shies, shift, shims, shist, sifts, sites, smite, smith, stems, sties, stime. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-i-i-m-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fetichisms, fetishisms. | |
+5 letters: disfurnishment. | |
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