Pervert vs Fetish - What's the difference?
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(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
To turn another way; to divert.
* Shakespeare
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt.
* Milton
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To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
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.
(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).
As nouns the difference between pervert and fetish
is that pervert is one who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals while fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.As a verb pervert
is to turn another way; to divert.pervert
English
(wikipedia pervert)Noun
(en noun)- Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
Usage notes
* In contemporary usage, pervert is usually understood to refer to a sexually perverted person. Traditionally the word was mainly associated with persons of false religious beliefs.Synonyms
* (sexually perverted person) deviant, perv (slang)Antonyms
* convert (religious)Verb
(en verb)- Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
- He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
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- pervert one's words
- (Testament of Love)
Synonyms
* (turn another way) divert, steer, veer * corrupt, lead astray * misapply, misuse * (take the wrong course)fetish
English
(wikipedia fetish)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(es)- I know a guy who has a foot fetish .