different between talisman vs fetishist

English

Etymology

From French talisman, partly from Arabic ???????? (?ilasm), from Ancient Greek ??????? (télesma, “payment”); and partly directly from Byzantine Greek ??????? (télesma, “talisman, religious rite, completion”), from ????? (telé?, “to perform religious rites, to complete”), from ????? (télos, “end, fulfillment, accomplishment, consummation, completion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæl.?s?mæn/, /?tæl.?z.m?n/

Noun

talisman (plural talismans)

1. A magical object providing protection against ill will, or the supernatural, or conferring the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or power(s).

Derived terms

• talismen (non-standard plural)

See also

• amulet
• apotropaic
• medallion
• rosary

Translations

Gallery

Anagrams

• natalism, staminal

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?ilasm), from Ancient Greek ??????? (télesma).

Noun

talisman c (singular definite talismanen, plural indefinite talismaner)

1. talisman

Inflection

See also

• amulet
• fetich

References

• “talisman” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French talisman, from Arabic ???????? (?ilasm), from Ancient Greek ??????? (télesma).

• 1644, Johan de Brune, de Jonge, Wetsteen der vernuften, publ. by Iacob Lescaille, page 46.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?.l?s?m?n/
• Hyphenation: ta?lis?man

Noun

talisman m (plural talismans or talismannen, diminutive talismannetje n)

1. talisman, amulet [from 17th c.]

French

Noun

talisman m (plural talismans)

1. talisman

   Synonym: amulette

Hyponyms

• grigri

Descendants

• ? Catalan: talismà
• ? English: talisman
• ? Galician: talismán
• ? Portuguese: talismã
• ? Spanish: talismán

Further reading

• “talisman” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French talisman

Noun

talisman n (plural talismane)

1. talisman

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French talisman or Spanish talismán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal?sma?n/
• Hyphenation: ta?lis?man

Noun

talìsm?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. talisman

Declension

References

• “talisman” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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