English Explanatory Dictionary

retifism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.

Word forms

retifism

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.

Related words

foot fetish

Derived words

retifist
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