fetishistic
adjEtymology From fetishist + -ic or fetish + -istic.
1
Of or pertaining to fetishism or fetishists.
- A curious fetishistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36:
- Antonyms
- normophilic
- Derived terms
- fetishistically, fetishistic necrophiliac, nonfetishistic, technofetishistic