The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetish \Fe"tish\, n., Fetishism \Fe"tish*ism\ (? or ?; 277), n., Fetishistic \Fe`tish*is"tic\, a. See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.
Fetichistic \Fe`tich*is"tic\, Fetishistic \Fe`tish*is"tic\, a. Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange
web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and
fetichistic dread.
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to fetishism or fetishists
Usage examples of "fetishistic".
What makes fetishism so interesting is the intriguing diversity and perverse enthusiasm displayed by the fetishistic.
I suspect that there are a great number of anonymous, fetishistic men in the world who do not dress completely as women.
The most visible members of the CD community, the drag queen and the female impersonator, provide a useful contrast between the peripheral CD and the fetishistic CD.
The drag queen, on the other hand, is a true cross-dresser in that he has a psychological need to cross-dress, and this need is expressed in fetishistic terms.
Due to this fetishistic emphasis, the drag queen is markedly different from the cosmetic CD, who generally opts for a more realistic interpretation of feminine dress.
Despite her living full time as a woman, however, I class Shantel in the fetishistic category for several reasons.
Most slaves are sexually aroused by this because it caters to a fetishistic element in them and, more important, they have a need to be humiliated by a woman.
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.
Whereas his emotional perimeter had been represented by one or two items of female clothing, he now expands beyond that border by engaging in a more complete, though still fetishistic, form of cross-dressing.
Breathtaking as this ensemble was, it revealed that cross-dressing, in the case of the TF, is no more than an aggregate whose sum total adds to the fetishistic interpretation of a woman.
In and of itself, this could be considered an aesthetic and tactile experience rather than a fetishistic one.
Protestant correctness, one could be labelled fetishistic if he used sacred objects in his worship of a non-Christian God.
Caroline is often contacted by men who want to act out their fetishistic desires with her.
His interest in furry activities began innocently enough but as we will see, he is in an advanced state of fetishistic behavior.
But all the signs point to a fetishistic serial killer, someone targeting people with situs inversus for some ritual or psychological reason.