Superstition vs Fetish - What's the difference?
superstition | fetish |
A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
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 superstition and fetish
is that superstition is superstition while fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.superstition
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(wikipedia superstition)Noun
(en noun)fetish
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(wikipedia fetish)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(es)- I know a guy who has a foot fetish .