Fĕt'i-chĭsm or Fĕt'i-cĭsm, n.

n. [Fr. fétichisme. See supra.] One of the lowest and grossest forms of superstition, consisting in the worship of some material object, as a stone, a tree, or an animal, often casually selected;—practiced among tribes of lowest mental endowment, as certain races of negroes.