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fetishize

verb

Etymology

From fetish + -ize.

  1. derived from factīcius
  2. derived from feitiço
  3. borrowed from fétiche
  4. suffixed as fetishize — “fetish + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.

    • Our society has fetishized personal wealth.
    • John's unteachers ignore the letter of their target text, while fetishizing the letter of their own.

  2. To make into a fetish, or magical object.

    • Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA