fetishism

• fetichism (archaic)

From fetish +‎ -ism.

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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.
   • 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     That's cross-dressing to you and me and, according to Blanchard and the APA, there are two types – fetishism and autogynephilia.

3. An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.

• Wikipedia article on fetishism
• Wikipedia article on the paraphilia