(n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
(n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
(a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
(2) I mean, there are balloon-popping fetishes and farting.
(3) Valid and reliable scales measuring the typological variables of erotic partner preference (androphilia and gynephilia), cross-gender fantasy in association with sexual arousal (cross-gender fetishism), and degree of feminine gender identity in childhood were used.
(4) The question which has been addressed in this paper is that of how broad or narrow our definition of fetishism should be.
(5) Direct observations of behavior evoked by a fetish object (wet shoe) in one patient are reported.
(6) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(7) Similarities and differences between male and female fetishism are discussed, with attention given to the greater complexity of the perversion as it occurs in a woman.
(8) The author, after giving an outline of various theories of the genesis of sexual malpractices in general and so-called fetishistic practices in particular, tries to show, by reference to the behavior shown by several normally intelligent and socially fully integrated young persons, that juvenile fetishism cannot be considered a perversion in the proper sense of the word.
(9) Or the noughties, when the creed of food fetishism hit Borough , bringing with it pork pies that cost as much as a pig, fruits we couldn’t name, herbs bearing the names of the people who found them?
(10) The author discusses the implications of using buspirone in the treatment of both inhibited sexual desire and transvestic fetishism.
(11) 9.05pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th If you have a fetish for routine groundball outs, and Rule 34 suggests that someone is, this game is basically NC-17.
(12) Feminine behaviors during the childhood and adolescence of volunteer male transvestites who had shown a period of fetishism were investigated.
(13) And also, undoubtedly, because the car and the artwork are both commodity fetishes whose place in culture is more than utilitarian.
(14) Other entries in the book include a list of safe and dangerous vaginal stimulators ("Dil-dos and Dil-don'ts"), "Bestselling Sex Toys Of All Time" (Rubik's Pubes and Horny Horny Hippos) and an illustrated spot-the-fetish gallery.
(15) In the final months of their marriage, Alex developed a sinister fetish.
(16) Hypersexuality and fetishism appeared in a patient with multiple sclerosis whose MRI scan showed frontal and temporal lesions.
(17) The adoption of a fetish affords protection, as it serves to negate total psychic inner deadness.
(18) It is suggested that whatever the pregenital determinants of this perversion are, fetishism makes special reference to problems related to the phallic position (a concept suggested as an alternative to the notion of a developmental genetic phallic phase).
(19) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(20) The clinical example confirms the existence of fetishism in women and suggests that subtle forms of the perversion may go unnoticed and be more prevalent than previously realized.
Predilection
Definition:
(n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(2) A striking predilection was noted for recurrent lesions to be located in the internal carotid artery near the origin, but still within the confines, of the original endarterectomy site and suture line.
(3) There was no gender predilection and the average age at diagnosis was 41 years.
(4) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(5) If the same mechanisms apply in humans they could be important in determining the HLA-DR haplotype associations and the predilection of rheumatoid arthritis for females.
(6) Beyond Donovan of course, the surprise is not so much Klinsmann's well established predilection for throwing youth into testing situations, but the critical mass of inexperience he has gone with.
(7) Ankyloglossia, three times as common in males, was the one trait to exhibit a significant predilection by gender.
(8) It mostly affects children of under 8 years old without special sexual predilection.
(9) Both organisms are opportunistic pathogens with a predilection for patients with foreign bodies in place.
(10) Three types of small cardiac lesions were described and illustrated: (1) focal type of papillary muscle fibrosis, evidently a healed infarct of the papillary muscle present in 13% of autopsies, is a histologically characteristic lesion associated with coronary artery disease and healed myocardial infarction, (2) diffuse type of papillary muscle fibrosis, probably an aging change present in almost half of the autopsies, is associated with sclerosis of the arteries in the papillary muscle, is identifiable histologically, and apparently is not associated with any cardiac abnormality, and (3) focal cardiac myocytolysis, a unique histologic lesion, usually multifocal without predilection for any area of the heart, is associated with ischemic heard disease, death due to cancer complicated by nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis and microthrombi in small cardiac arteries as well as with other diseases.
(11) We found that foods such as snails and eggs have a strong predilection for the bronchial tree as the shock organ.
(12) We have clarified the predilection sites of intracerebral hemorrhage and the advancing direction of the hematoma by studying autopsy cases.
(13) The TH+ amacrines were deleted randomly from the retinas without any peripheral-central predilection.
(14) The predilection of rectal stricture and its proposed precursor, salmonella ulcerative proctitis, for the middle third of the rectum was attributed to a normally precarious arterial supply which renders the rectum unusually susceptible to ischemic injury and decreases its reparative capacity.
(15) Only cats had a sex difference in the occurrence of nasal neoplasms, with a male predilection.
(16) Mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS) are malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, characterized by the proliferation of helper type T lymphocytes with a predilection for the skin.
(17) Two hundred human breasts removed for clinical cancer by radical mastectomy were analyzed to determine whether apocrine metaplasia and apocrine cysts have predilective sites in the four mammary quadrants.
(18) Predilectional areas also have lower fold indices and higher RWR in younger subjects prior to any intimal thickening development.
(19) Most of the primary tumors (80%) were visible by bronchoscopy, which showed predilection of trachea for cylindromas, left-sided for mucoepidermoid carcinomas and right-sided for carcinoids.
(20) These unusual tumors have a predilection to involve the facial nerve, usually at the geniculate ganglion, internal auditory canal, or middle ear.