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retifism

retifism noun: the sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.

Noun

retifism (uncountable)

  1. The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
    • In the interests of intellectual exchange the author attempts to describe foot fetish and shoe retifism.2004, Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia) Department of Podiatry https://web.archive.org/web/20071018035445/http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/fetish.html

Origin of retifism

Adapted 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.

Words formed from retifism

Questions about retifism

What does retifism mean?
Retifism means the sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
What part of speech is retifism?
Retifism is a noun.

Words near retifism in the dictionary

  1. retiered
  2. retiering
  3. retiers
  4. reties
  5. retifanlimab
  6. retifism
  7. retifist
  8. retifists
  9. retiform
  10. retigabine
  11. retighten

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