different between fetishist vs fetish

English

Etymology

fetish +? -ist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?t???st/

Noun

fetishist (plural fetishists)

1. One who has a sexual fetish.
2. (archaic) A believer in magical fetishes or talismans.
   • 1845, Brownson's Review, page 472:

     As well might we charge the people of Massachusetts with being Fetichists, as the Professor charge us with worshipping images.

   • 1882, Sir John Lubbock, The Origin of Civilization and the Primitve Condition of Man: Mental and Social Condition of Savages, page 4:

     These races were Fetichists before they became Buddhist, Mahometan, or Christian.

   • 1866, John Stuart Mill, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, page 170:

     The Fetishist thinks not merely that his Fetish is alive, but that it can help him in war, can cure him of diseases, can grant him prosperity, or afflict him with all the contrary evils.

Synonyms

• (person with sexual fetish): kinkster, paraphiliac

Antonyms

• normophile

Translations

Anagrams

• fittishes, shiftiest

English

Alternative forms

• fetich (dated [18th c.–present])

Etymology

Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin fact?cius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: f?t??sh, f??t?sh, IPA^(key): /?f?t.??/, /?fi?.t??/

Noun

fetish (plural fetishes)

1. Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. [from the early 17th c.]
2. Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body. [from the early 19th c.]

   Synonym: paraphilia
3. An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. [from the 19th c.]
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition), chapter XXII, page 117:

     We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work.

Derived terms

• fet
• fetishism
• fetishist
• fetishistic
• fetishize
• fetishlike
• fetishwear

Translations

Anagrams

• feiths, thiefs