noun. Worship of or belief in magical fetishes.

noun. Excessive attachment or regard.

noun. The displacement of sexual arousal or gratification to a fetish.

noun. The practice of worshiping a fetish; that form of religious belief and practice in which fetishes are the objects of worship. See the extracts.

noun. Hence Blind devotion to one object or idea; abject superstition.

noun. the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.

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

noun. sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)

noun. a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)

"This study had been commenced in his own time by de Brosses, the inventor of the term fetishism, and pronounced by competent modern authorities to have been a powerful and original thinker upon the facts of the infancy of civilization."

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