Definition of Fetishist

1. Noun. One who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature).

Generic synonyms: Degenerate, Deviant, Deviate, Pervert
Derivative terms: Fetish, Fetish, Fetishism, Fetishism

Definition of Fetishist

1. Noun. One who has a sexual fetish. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) A believer in magical fetishes or talismans. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fetishist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetishist

fetids
fetii
feting
fetiparous
fetisely
fetishes
fetishisation
fetishisations
fetishise
fetishised
fetishises
fetishising
fetishisms
fetishistic
fetishistically
fetishists
fetishizable
fetishization
fetishizations
fetishize
fetishized
fetishizer
fetishizers
fetishizes
fetishizing
fetishlike

Literary usage of Fetishist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychoanalysis and Love by André Tridon (1922)
"That man is what is called technically a hair fetishist. ... The Hair fetishist whose unlawful activities bring him sooner or later into the clutches of the ..."

2. Sermons and Addresses by Robert Flint (1899)
"The vague, feeble, wayward gropings of the fetishist after communion with divine powers are not to be denied to be religious, nor denied to have affinity ..."

3. Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill (1891)
"As if the superstition of the fetishist consisted only in believing that the objects which ... The fetishist thinks not merely that his Fetish is alive, ..."

4. A General View of Chinese Civilization and of the Relations of the West with by Pierre Laffitte (1887)
"For the fetishist, all bodies are not merely spontaneously active, but, ... The Earth is conceived, by the fetishist, in spite of its apparent immobility, ..."

5. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by John Stuart Mill (1866)
"As if the superstition of the fetishist consisted only in believing that the objects which ... The fetishist thinks not merely that his Fetish is alive, ..."

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