Fetishism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FETISHISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• devotion to or reverence for a fetish or fetishes, also FETICHISM
• a form of sexual behaviour in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc.
• excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing
• worship of an inanimate object for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit
• The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
• Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.
• 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)
• excessive attention or attachment to something
ADJECTIVE:
• Alt. of Fetishistic
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• belief in magical fetishes
• condition in which the handling of an inanimate object or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs is a source of sexual satisfaction

Words related to FETISHISM

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Words that contain FETISHISM

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How to use FETISHISM in a sentence

• It is not, however, my object in this paper to trace the history of this theory from its first rude beginnings in Fetishism to its final development in Theism.
• If we go far enough back into the ages of primeval Fetishism, it becomes manifest that originally Deity, Chief, and Master of the ceremonies were identical.
• As it is now needless to forbid man-eating and Fetishism, so will it ultimately become needless to forbid murder, theft, and the minor offences of our criminal code.
• It is true that the popular handbooks of comparative religion quite generally teach a development of religious belief through animism, fetishism, and polytheism to monotheism.
• Their religion is a mixture of Mahomedanism, idolatry, and fetishism.
• Thus among the kinds of belief which served in the development of Polytheism, was Fetishism, itself an adaptation and extension of the idea of separable souls.
• These movements, made without conscious exertion or direction, seem, to savage philosophy, to be caused by in-dwelling spirits, the sources of Fetishism.
• Fetishism prevails, with spiritualism, and Wilson thinks that mediums might pick up some good tricks in Guinea.
• Fetishism probably shows itself in gifts to a great rock.
• Max Mullet, looking on religion as the development of the sentiment of the Infinite, regards fetishism as a secondary and comparatively late form of belief.
• The forms of religion evolving, emanating and radiating from that common centre are, let us say, fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism.
• If fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism radiate from a common centre, the heart of man, then the heart of man must also be regarded as the starting-point of magic.

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