Fetichism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FETICHISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• devotion to or reverence for a fetish or fetishes, also FETISHISM
• belief in or use of fetishes.
• the compulsive use of some object, or part of the body, as a stimulus in the course of attaining sexual gratification, as a shoe, a lock of hair, or underclothes.
• Alt. of Fetishism
• a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
• sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
• blind devotion: a fetishism of sacrifice to one's children.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• belief in magical fetishes
• same as fetishism

Words related to FETICHISM

fetichisms20 fetishism17

Words that contain FETICHISM

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How to use FETICHISM in a sentence

• He taught that man begins with fetichism, advances to polytheism, and at last rises to monotheism.
• It probably grew, in the first place, out of African fetichism which was brought over from the dark continent along with the dark people.
• The adoration of a putrid carcass would have been a form of fetichism lower and more degrading than any that has been discovered.
• The worship of stones is a kind of fetichism, which in the very infancy of religion prevailed, perhaps, more extensively than any other form of religious culture.
• Amongst others, especially in Africa, it became pure Fetichism, that is, the adoration of a material object, to which were attributed supernatural powers.
• Egypt, notwithstanding an apparent kind of Fetichism, had very early metaphysical dogmas and a lofty symbolism.
• In its popular and unfortunately commoner aspect it is simply polytheism, fetichism and magic.
• This is not confined only to thieving connected with fetichism, numerous cases of which have been reported in the literature.
• Art and Religion spring from the same root, but coincide only at the outset, as in fetichism, the worship of the Black Stone of the Caaba, or the wonder-working Madonnas of Italy.
• They are curious in their symbols of fetichism, and have an attraction that one can scarcely explain.
• In religion the jibaro professes Catholicism with a large admixture of fetichism.
• They believe in dreams, and they have a kind of fetichism, and believe so heartily in supernatural causes.
• One need not travel in Yezo or Saghalin to see practical Fetichism.
• Further illustrations of far Eastern Animism and Fetichism are seen in forms once vastly more prevalent in Japan than now.

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