Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a fetish of.
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- verb To make a
fetish of; toobsess over
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- verb make a fetish of
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seems that if you use the word fetishize to attack an idea you don't have to engage in supported or reasoned argument against the idea.
Rob Kall: Is Occupy Wall Street Fetishizing the Public Square? Rob Kall 2011
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In other words, we feel guilty, and we, in his term, "fetishize" labor.
Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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In other words, we feel guilty, and we, in his term, "fetishize" labor.
Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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My right-leaning buddy Mike affirms the legality of the construction and actively wants the mosque built, though he also wonders how long we will continue to "fetishize" the area of Lower Manhattan close to Ground Zero.
Jihad Monitor 2010
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I kind of fetishize fetishes actually -- I really get a kick out of doing things that are out of the norm in general.
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Throw in "fetishize" and a weird pronounciation of Aptow ...
Row Three 2009
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This is yet another sign of the disconnect in priorities between the American public and centrist Beltway media figures, who, as John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote the other day, have developed an unhealthy obsession with the deficit as the number one litmus test issue for serious politicans, as well as a tendency to fetishize bipartisan deficit commissions.
Bipartisanship! Repubs, Dems, indys agree jobs far more important than deficit Greg Sargent 2011
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A lesson from other movements is that you don't want to fetishize how to do things.
Rob Kall: Is Occupy Wall Street Fetishizing the Public Square? Rob Kall 2011
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At almost all the occupied territories I've visited the words fetishize or fetishizing have been used.
Rob Kall: Is Occupy Wall Street Fetishizing the Public Square? Rob Kall 2011
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"I'm just surprised by the way they boldly, proudly, fetishize the stupidity."
Arianna Huffington: Choking on Its Contrived Objectivity, the Media Refuses to Take a Stand on Sanity Arianna Huffington 2010
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