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retifism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
reti-fism
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

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.

Usage

Derived Forms

retifist

Phrases

foot fetish

Frequently Paired Words

foot fetish

Questions

What does retifism mean?
The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
Where does retifism come from?
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.

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