retifism

English

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.

Noun

retifism (uncountable)

  1. The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
    Hyponym: altocalciphilia
    • 2004, Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia) Department of Podiatry [1]
      In the interests of intellectual exchange the author attempts to describe foot fetish and shoe retifism.

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