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fetishistically

fetishistically adverb: in a fetishistic manner.

Adverb

fetishistically (comparative more fetishistically, superlative most fetishistically)

  1. In a fetishistic manner.
    • Fortunately, their nicknames give them away: All are figures associated with the Mafia, that fetishistically documented secret society responsible for long-ago crime waves, more recent cinematic masterpieces and, above all, an enduring modern marketing bonanza.2007 October 21, Michael Brick, “The Mafia, an F.B.I. Agent and Murder: Mr. Scorsese, Your Next Film Awaits”, in New York Times
    • First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation

Forms of fetishistically

comparativemore fetishistically
superlativemost fetishistically

Origin of fetishistically

From fetishistic + -ally.

Questions about fetishistically

What does fetishistically mean?
Fetishistically means in a fetishistic manner.
What part of speech is fetishistically?
Fetishistically is an adverb.

Words near fetishistically in the dictionary

  1. fetishism
  2. fetishisms
  3. fetishist
  4. fetishistic
  5. fetishistic necrophiliac
  6. fetishistically
  7. fetishists
  8. fetishizable
  9. fetishization
  10. fetishizations
  11. fetishize

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