1 (usually disapproving) the fact that a person spends too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing:
She has a fetish about cleanliness. * He makes a fetish of his work.
2 the fact of getting sexual pleasure from a particular object:
to have a leather fetish
3 an object that some people worship because they believe that it has magic powers
fetishism noun [U]:
a magazine specializing in rubber fetishism * the importance of animal fetishism in the history of Egypt
fetishist noun:
a leather fetishist
fetishistic adjective
