Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetichist \Fe"tich*ist\, Fetishist \Fe"tish*ist\, n. A believer in fetiches.
He was by nature a fetichist.
--H. Holbeach.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who has a sexual fetish. 2 (context archaic English) A believer in magical fetishes or talismans.
WordNet
n. one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
Usage examples of "fetishist".
Henry Crawford, a dominant, aged 33, who was an avid spanking enthusiast and enema fetishist.
My theory is that when a fetishist comes to some resolution -- usually through therapy -- about his early relationship to his mother, the fetishistic impulse diffuses from the sharp focus of the mother into a more generalized emphasis upon the symbols of women.
You would be surprised how much information on their subjects even the privacy fetishists of Septagon manage to collect.
A fetishist has been classically defined as a person who derives sexual gratification from a nonsexual part of the body or an inanimate object.
A supposed difference is that the vibrator has been specifically designed for sexual purposes, whereas the shoe is a nonsexual object that has been imbued with erotic qualities by the fetishist.
There are four or five bars a nervous square might relax in, but one is a Lesbian place, another is a hangout for brutal-looking leather fetishists and the others are old neighborhood taverns full of brooding middle-aged drunks.
NYC where he was traveling with a character known to the Brooklyn police as Blubber Wilson, who hustled his goof ball money shaking down fetishists in shoe stores.
One of the jewels, if you must know, in one of the manacles on one of Andromeda's wrists -- make it her navel, you're such a fetishist -- happens to be a spiral nebula, and that nebula happens to be your little friend.
One of the most powerful human beings in the state of Florida, and here his lofty shining universe had been reduced to a tabloid freak showdog dismemberers and Barbie-doll fetishists and armed punk-haired sadists who crammed rodents down his gullet!
One of the most powerful human beings in the state of Florida, and here his lofty shining universe had been reduced to a tabloid freak show—dog dismemberers and Barbie-doll fetishists and armed punk-haired sadists who crammed rodents down his gullet!