fetishize

especially British, fet·ish·ise

[fet-i-shahyz]

verb (used with object)

fetishized, fetishizing 

1. to make a fetish of.

fetishize

/ ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to be excessively or irrationally devoted to (an object, activity, etc)

Other Word Forms

• fetishization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fetishize¹

fetish + -ize

Example Sentences

We fetishize secrecy in American cooking — especially the kind passed down through generations.

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I was also thinking about bathhouses as these places used to fetishize women in Japanese pop culture and manga.

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Vladimir Lenin fetishized technology, insisting that industrialization and electrification would lead to the idealized future of a truly communist society.

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The streets of Los Angeles — particularly Hollywood — are a backdrop not just for addicts, scammers, human traffickers and a cult that fetishizes amputees, but also for people in distress and the cops who help them.

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Online men fetishize subjugating women and making them like it through their “trad wife” fantasies, while Trump-world heroes like Twitter CEO Elon Musk joke about impregnating liberal women like pop star Taylor Swift.

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