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Fetishism vs Fetishise - What's the difference?

fetishism | fetishise |

As a noun fetishism

is the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.

As a verb fetishise is

(chiefly|british).

fetishism

English

Alternative forms

* fetichism (archaic);

Noun

  • the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
  • a form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.

    • See also

    * * English words suffixed with -ism

    fetishise

    English

    Verb

    (fetishis)
  • (chiefly, British)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised .}}