fetishize
verb (used with object)
to make a fetish of.
fetishization
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a word derived from
fetishize.
Example Sentences
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Abareshi’s work comments on the fetishization and scrutiny of disabled bodies and pushes viewers to reflect on their discomfort and pleasure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
That’s just an empty fetishization of something that’s not even that sophisticated of an engineering problem.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
“The region has become so securitized, and under M.B.Z., the U.A.E. has become so focused on security there’s almost this fetishization of technology,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
With this opening sentence, historian Coll Thrush begins his study of the city and its conflicting relationship with Indigenous communities, which has lurched between dependence, hostility, fetishization and erasure.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
I have so many concerns around the fetishization of weddings to the exclusion of actually understanding marriage.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2022
