fetish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin factus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -īcus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -īcius
Latin factīcius
Portuguese feitiçobor.
French fétichebor.
English fetish
Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.
Inflected forms:
form: fetishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fetich
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices.
gloss: A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: This was the trunk of a large wooden doll […] now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. […] The last nail had been driven in with a fiercer stroke than usual, for the Fetish on that occasion represented aunt Glegg
gloss: Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I know a guy who has a foot fetish.
a fetish for leather
The first time, I was confused. His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for lace-up shoes.
gloss: An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has been talking about the same topic for hours on end, I suspect he may have a fetish
However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetich with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time.
We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work.
The most amusing was the Wastebasket Era, which combined the stacking fetish with a container fixation.
A leading candidate for this role in the case of women has been the soap fetish.[…]Given this general cultural background the reasons for the rise of the soap fetish are not hard to find.[…]Guilt, as one of the propellers of the soap fetish, does not confine its thrust to the desire to wash dirty hands or erase the blots from the copybook.
A locavore (local plus the -vore of carnivore, etc.) is someone who makes a fetish of eating locally produced food.
gloss: A recurrent theme of a specific thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: clean fetish
commodity fetish
factish
fet
fetish-adjacent
fetish bean
fetisher
fetishic
fetishise
fetishism
fetishist
fetishistic
fetishization
fetishize
fetishlike
fetish-man
fetish mining
fetish priest
fetishwear
fetishy
finish fetish
foot fetish
hypnofetish
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