fetich


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Synonyms for fetich

a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

excessive or irrational devotion to some activity

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Felipa's "fetich" is an especially suggestive illustration of how her "pagan" beliefs constitute a troubling alterity for these emissaries of metropolitan culture.
Aprovechando la virtualidad, escribimos a mas de 100 personas en sus redes sociales abarcando FetLife (red social para personas con fetiches especificos), Facebook y Twitter.
On se souvient egalement que les Guineens avaient fait le deplacement a Casablanca pour jouer autre chose que le football, en faisant signe surtout des trucs relevant des amulettes, fetiches ou des gris gris.
El mundo paleo-durkhemiano estaba por asi decir, plagado de magia: significados y simbologias, fetiches y conmemoraciones, provenientes de la memoria ancestral y sometidos a la expurgacion de la doctrina de la cristiandad.
37), e alerta o leitor para que esse nao "se apresse em traduzir (esta palavra) por feminilidade, a feminilidade da mulher, a sexualidade feminina e outros fetiches essencializantes que sao justamente o que se cre conquistar quando se permanece na tolice do filosofo dogmatico, do artista impotente ou do sedutor sem experiencia" (DERRIDA, 2013, p.
The latter has been called "a factory of small bibliographic fetishes that has conquered the most demanding readers" (una fabrica de pequenos fetiches bibliograficos que ha conquistado a los lectores mas exigentes), a definition I find troublesome as it seems to underwrite, or at least to take for granted, the fetishization of literary fiction as a natural consequence of media comglomeration as exemplified by the Alfaguara story.
C'est donc un derby que d'aucuns ne voudraient rater, mais aussi d'aucuns ne souhaitent voir leurs equipes fetiches passer a cote de son sujet.