retifism.
The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
Meaning & usage
The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
Where this word comes from
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.
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