fetishizev.
/ˈfɛtᵻʃʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfɛdəˌʃaɪz/ transitive. To make a fetish of; to pay undue respect to, to overvalue.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > over-estimate or overvalue
to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395
to make of (also on)c1449
to make fair weather of1537
over-reckon1537
overmind1571
overween1588
overprize?1589
overcount1593
overvalue1597
overrate1599
wondernize1599
overhold1609
over-cess1611
overweight1613
overthinka1618
over-title1620
overcast1622
overmeasure1625
over-sum1628
overesteema1639
overproportion1642
outbid1688
overcharge1711
overestimate1797
overreach1822
overplay1835
maximize1866
maximate1881
out-reckon1898
fetishize1934
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1961 I. L. Horowitz Philos., Sci. & Sociol. of Knowl. v. 57 Present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition.
1973 Screen Spring 198 The only way to avoid fetishising cinematic specificity is to examine it, as Metz has done, in a systematic and relative way.
1986 S. Orbach Hunger Strike i. 23 The preoccupation with food is linked with a fetishizing of the female form.
Derivatives
fetishiˈzation n. the action or an instance of fetishizing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > overestimation or overrating
overweening1554
over-cessing1611
overvaluing1612
overvaluation1622
overrating1651
overestimation1808
fetishization1934
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1973 M. Jay Dialectical Imagination v. 155 The fetishization of the economy was left to more orthodox Marxists.
1985 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 67/1 A common vision of social therapy: the fetishization of sunshine, hygiene, labor, and the out-of-door.
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