What does "fetishize" mean?

To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.

What is a synonym for "fetishize"?

Common synonyms include: deify, eroticize, fetishes, idolize, objectify, overinvest.

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession. transitive
"Our society has fetishized personal wealth."
2
make a fetish of wordnet
3
To make into a fetish, or magical object. transitive
"Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization."

"Ziri is one of those white guys who fetishize black women."

From fetish + -ize.