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Definition of fetishistic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fetishistic

adjective
 
/ˌfetɪˈʃɪstɪk/
 
/ˌfetɪˈʃɪstɪk/
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  1. (usually disapproving) spending too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing or thinking that it is much more important than it really is
    • a fetishistic attachment to monarchy
  2. connected with sexual fetishism
  3. involving the worship of an object because it is believed to have magic powers
    • Colonialists dismissed local rituals as ‘fetishistic’.
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