retifism

retifism means the sexual fetish of attraction to shoes. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

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

The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.“2004, Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia) Department of Podiatry https://web.archive.org/web/20071018035445/http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/fetish.html In the interests of intellectual exchange the author attempts to describe foot fetish and shoe retifism.”