retifism

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noun

The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.

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Meanings

nounretifism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.

    2004, Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia) Department of Podiatry https://web.archive.org/web/20071018035445/http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/fetish.html In the interests of intellectual exchange the author attempts to describe foot fetish and shoe retifism.

Origin

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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APA

retifism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retifism

MLA

“retifism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retifism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “retifism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retifism.

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