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Fetishize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession. transitive

    "Our society has fetishized personal wealth."

  2. 2
    make a fetish of wordnet
  3. 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."

Etymology

From fetish + -ize.

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