fetish
noun/ˈfetɪʃ/
/ˈfetɪʃ/
- (usually disapproving) the fact that a person spends too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing or thinks that it is more important than it really is
- She has a fetish about cleanliness.
- He makes a fetish of his work.
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- the fact of getting sexual pleasure from a particular object
- to have a leather fetish
- an object that some people worship because they believe that it has magic powers
Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally denoting an object used by the peoples of West Africa as an amulet or charm): from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço ‘charm, sorcery’ (originally an adjective meaning ‘made by art’), from Latin facticius, from facere ‘do, make’.
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