fetishist
/ˈfɛtɪʃɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Like other fetishists, they [foot fetishists] derive a great deal of sexual pleasure from a particular object, in this case, feet."
- "A social media convention among young and famous people is not to show bare feet to avoid attention from foot fetishists."
- "[…] in 2024, Lily Allen said she made more money selling pictures of her feet to fetishists than she earned from Spotify streams."
- "As well might we charge the people of Massachusetts with being Fetichists, as the Professor charge us with worshipping images."
- "These races were Fetichists before they became Buddhist, Mahometan, or Christian."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin factus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin factīcius Portuguese feitiçobor. French fétichebor. English fetish Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English fetishist From fetish + -ist.