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Definition of Fetichisms
1. fetichism [n] - See also: fetichism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetichisms
Literary usage of Fetichisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"They might more readily lend themselves to fetichisms where coitus is unnecessary,
as in emissions the male organ is without the stimulus of contact. ..."
2. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1910)
"... such as biting the nails or counting groups of objects; morbid or useless
impulses, such as touching every tree one passes; and fetichisms, eg, ..."
3. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"... theism has been discerned and used for the uplifting of character and
life—furnishing a testimony obscured or broken only by the crudest fetichisms, ..."
4. Memories of a Hundred Years by Edward Everett Hale (1904)
"All this shows a brave forelock based on the abandonment of the various fetichisms
of the century before. For our present purpose, for a contemporary view ..."