retifism en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.