Definition of Fetishize

1. Verb. Make a fetish of.

Generic synonyms: Adore
Derivative terms: Fetish

Definition of Fetishize

1. Verb. To make a fetish of; to obsess over ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fetishize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetishize

fetishisation
fetishisations
fetishise
fetishised
fetishises
fetishising
fetishisms
fetishistic
fetishistically
fetishists
fetishizable
fetishization
fetishizations
fetishize (current term)
fetishized
fetishizer
fetishizers
fetishizes
fetishizing
fetishlike
fetlock
fetlock joint
fetlocks
feto-maternal
fetofetal transfusion
fetoglobulins
fetography

Literary usage of Fetishize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... tendency to fetishize the object count as the natural measure of virtual history could possibly guess what the fuss might be, and even some ..."

2. African Voices on Structural Adjustment by P. Thandika Mkandawire, Charles Chukwuma Soludo (2003)
"... apolitical and ahistorical institution" or to fetishize it with human attributes such as "anger," "disappointment," "displeasure," "nervousness" ..."

3. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"It is my hunch that his future protagonists will fetishize and acquire boys of fifteen. 2 Sebastian Beaumont, 'Falling Star' [Review of Alan Hollinghurst, ..."

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