Fetish
['fetɪʃ] or ['fɛtɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; 'made a fetish of cleanliness'.
(noun.) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body; 'common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear'.
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
(n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
(a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Inputed by Bartholomew
Examples
- FETISH In the morning Gerald woke late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He remembered the African fetishes he had seen at Halliday's so often. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and movements, with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Checker: Lowell