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  • noun The act or process of fetishizing.

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Examples

  • Recent years also have seen an explosion in what might be described as a fetishization of these traditional female roles.

    Barbara & Shannon Kelley: The Marriage and Motherhood Myths Barbara 2011

  • Recent years also have seen an explosion in what might be described as a fetishization of these traditional female roles.

    Barbara & Shannon Kelley: The Marriage and Motherhood Myths Barbara 2011

  • I did not mean to denigrate sexual practice; for the people who practice them, fetishization is as real and important as religious fetishization can be, or any other kind.

    Fetishes As Fetish Does Heather McDougal 2007

  • But this sort of fetishization is a private sort of thing, the same way that a heterosexual man who has the hots for Pamela Andersen might have posters of her in his bedroom, but is not likely to write erotic stories about her and email them to friends he might never have met in person but who share his erotic fascination with Ms. Andersen.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • As an example, I offer what an observer of gay male culture might call the fetishization of the straight man.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on why men don’t try hard to change themselves: 2004

  • ..in some cases to the point of total fetishization, which is always interesting.

    Archive 2008-07-01 sfmike 2008

  • ..in some cases to the point of total fetishization, which is always interesting.

    Laf-A-Lots Car Club sfmike 2008

  • (anonymously, of course) an "honest appraisal" of Ruth's work, sternly noting her "egoistic, solipsistic vision of the world" and the propensity toward "fetishization" exhibited in some nude portraits she's painted of Glover.

    Salon 2009

  • But the analyst said that in his opinion "there's a little 'fetishization' of OSGi in the industry right now, when it's really the performance or other delivered attributes that are truly important, not OSGi per se.

    Hottest News Articles 2008

  • But the analyst said that in his opinion "there's a little 'fetishization' of OSGi in the industry right now, when it's really the performance or other delivered attributes that are truly important, not OSGi per se.

    Hottest News Articles 2008

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