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fet·ish
noun
also fet·ich \ˈfe]d.]ish, ]t], ]ēsh also ˈfē] or ˈfā]\
(-es)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Portuguese; French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from feitiço, adjective, artificial, false, from Latin facticius factitious — more at factitious
1.
a. : a natural or artificial object (as an animal tooth or a wood carving) believed among a primitive people to have a preternatural power to protect or aid its owner often because of ritual consecration or animation by a spirit; broadly : any material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence
< all our fetishes … Sunday school cards, a silver cross that I had for my baptism, a Bible — American Mercury >
b. : an object of extreme or irrational reverence or devotion : prepossession
< security … may be sought excessively and become a fetish — Bertrand Russell >
< a goose-stepping army which makes a fetish of discipline — Scribner's >
< accept the fetish that birth and station presuppose any innate superiority — Theodore Dreiser >
c. : an object (as a shoe or glove) or a part of the body that arouses libidinal interest often to the exclusion of genital impulses
2. : a rite or incantation or cult of fetish worshipers
< their tribal custom and fetish >
3. : irrational reverence or attachment : fixation
< had a fetish for red hair and so married a redhead > |