It's not like I've got any special interest in gym shorts - I've not got that fetish, I think.
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Fetish
Synonyms for "fetish" (60 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
Related word relations
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1 entriesderived
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
Translations
72 translations across 30 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- ֆետիշ noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- ֆետիշ noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- ֆետիշ noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Basque
2 entries- fetitxe noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetitxe noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Bulgarian
4 entries- амуле́т noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- куми́р noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
- муска́ noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- фети́ш noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Catalan
2 entries- fetitxe noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fetitxe noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 戀物 /恋物 noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- 物神 noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- 迷戀 /迷恋 noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Czech
1 entries- fetiš noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Danish
1 entries- fetish noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Dutch
1 entries- fetisj noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Esperanto
1 entries- fetiĉo noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Finnish
4 entries- fetissi noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetissi noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fetišši noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetišši noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
French
3 entries- fétiche noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fétiche noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fétiche noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Georgian
1 entries- ფეტიში noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
German
3 entries- Fetisch noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- Fetisch noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- Fetisch noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Greek
3 entries- βίτσιο noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- βίτσιο noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
- φετίχ noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Hungarian
3 entries- bálvány noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fétis noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fétis noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Irish
1 entries- feitis noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
Italian
2 entries- feticcio noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- feticismo noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Japanese
3 entries- フェチ noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- フェティシズム noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- フェティッシュ noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Korean
2 entries- 페티시 noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- 페티시즘 noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Lithuanian
2 entries- fetišas noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fetišas noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Polish
2 entries- fetysz noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetysz noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Portuguese
2 entries- fetiche noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetiche noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Romanian
1 entries- fetiș noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Russian
4 entries- амуле́т noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- и́дол noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
- куми́р noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
- фети́ш noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- fetiš noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetiš noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fetiš noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
- фетиш noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
Spanish
3 entries- fetiche noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetiche noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
- fetiche noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Swedish
1 entries- fetisch noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Turkish
2 entries- fetiş noun (something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers)
- fetiş noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фети́ш noun (irrational or abnormal fixation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ái vật noun (something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
What's your fetish?
Source: tatoeba (4061972)
Would you consider being in a relationship with someone who has an odd fetish?
Source: tatoeba (4061974)
Tom has a foot fetish.
Source: tatoeba (5146393)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.