Definition of "fetichism" [fe•tich•ism]

• Archaic form of fetishism. (noun)

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• "Binet and also Krafft-Ebing [64] have argued in effect that the whole of sexual selection is a matter of fetichism, that is to say, of erotic symbolism of object."
• "It is this philosophy, currently known as fetichism, but treated by Mr. Tylor under the somewhat more comprehensive name of "animism," which we must now consider in a few of its most conspicuous exemplifications."
• "The worship of stones is a kind of fetichism, which in the very infancy of religion prevailed, perhaps, more extensively than any other form of religious culture."