retifism
The sexual fetish of attraction to shoesThe sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
Origin
Adapted borrowing of German Retifismus, coined by German dermatologist and sexologist IwanAdapted borrowing of German Retifismus, coined by German dermatologist and sexologist Iwan Bloch in reference to the French novelist Nicolas-Edme Rétif’s Le Pied de Fanchette (Fanchette’s Foot, 1769), about a girl who is hounded by shoe-fetishists. By surface analysis, Rétif + -ism.
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Word family
2 related wordsRelatedfoot fetish
Derivedretifist
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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