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
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is fetish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fetish is tagged as noun.
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