fetishism

English

Noun

fetishism (countable and uncountable; plural fetishisms)

1. the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
2. a form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.

Translations

paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body

Chinese: Mandarin: 拜物教 (zh) (bàiwùjiào), 拜物主義 (zh), 拜物主义 (zh) (bàiwùzhǔyì) Croatian: fetišizam (hr) m. Czech: fetišismus (cs) m. French: fétichisme (fr) m. German: Fetischismus (de) m. Hungarian: fetisizmus (hu)

Italian: feticismo (it) m. Japanese: フェティシズム (ja) (fetishizumu), フェチ (ja) (fechi) Polish: fetyszyzm (pl) m. Romanian: fetișism (ro) Russian: фетишизм (ru) (fetišízm) m. Spanish: fetichismo (es) m.

See also

• Wikipedia article on fetishism
• Wikipedia article on the paraphilia