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fetishize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | adore |
| Derivation | fetish |
Examples of fetishize
fetishize
They are iconic in ways that transcend how Americans typically fetishize food.
From the bostonherald.com
Yet for all Gibson's sanguinary attentions, Apocalypto does not fetishize suffering.
From the theatlantic.com
Such fondness for a parental touch seems counter to the individuality Americans fetishize.
From the newsweek.com
It's a beautiful scene, but one so static and overlong that it seems to fetishize set design.
From the theatlantic.com
It's impossible to both fetishize taste and truly save the planet.
From the theatlantic.com
Jeunet still tells a story with style, though, and he never met a camera move he didn't fetishize.
From the boston.com
Over time, people forget what the original distributions even were, and begin to fetishize them.
From the scienceblogs.com
However, in arguing that Bitcoin does not have intrinsic value, you unduly fetishize material concreteness.
From the forbes.com
Do not fetishize the traits, or do so at your own risk.
From the scienceblogs.com
- Make a fetish of
- A fetish (derived from the French fu00E9tiche; which comes from the Portuguese feitiu00E7o; and this in turn from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the emic attribution of inherent value or powers to an object.
- (Fetishization) to see an object completely detached from the mechanisms of its production, especially the economic exploitation involved.
- (fetishizing) Exaggerating the importance of a particular theory, principle, concept or factor in social analysis (such as overemphasizing the role of 'space' in isolation of social processes). Used originally to indicate ways of obscuring class conflict. See commodity fetishism.
- Treat as a fetish; irrational devotion to an idea, object, or practice
