Betekenis van fetishism In het Nederlands

• 0 behaviour in which someone shows a sexual interest in an object, or in a part of the body other than the sexual organs:

  • Foot fetishism has little to do with procreation.

  • She found out her husband had called a phone sex-line specializing in fetishism.

  • There is a fetishism for sport in our society.

  • He believes that shoe fetishism is almost ubiquitous among women.

• 1 in some societies, the act of worshipping an object because it is believed to have a spirit or special magical powers:

  • Their fetishism was less a worship of various things than a use of the objects as charms and protections.

  • The temple illustrates the animal fetishism that lies at the dark roots of Egyptian religion.