Fetish vs Kink - What's the difference?
fetish | kink |
As nouns the difference between fetish and kink is that fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman while kink is a convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying or kink can be a tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. As a verb kink is to laugh loudly or kink can be to form a kink or twist.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
fetish Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
( es)
Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
Something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body, which arouses sexual desire or is necessary for one to reach full sexual satisfaction.
- I know a guy who has a foot fetish .
(US) An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation.
* 1933': ''We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of '''fetish of manual work.'' -- George Orwell, ''Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, pg. 117 (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition).
Related terms
* fetishism
* fetishist
* fetishistic
* fetishlike
* fetishize
* fetishwear
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kink Etymology 1
From (etyl) kinken, kynken, from (etyl) .
Verb
( en verb)
To laugh loudly.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
Noun
( en noun)
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) or (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks .
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
* Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
* 2013 , Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore (page 13)
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink . Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
(Scotland, dialect) A fit of coughing or laughter.
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the
Verb
( en verb)
To form a kink or twist.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
Derived terms
* kinked
* kinky
* kinkle
* kinkster
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