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fetishizable | fetishize | Derived terms |

Fetishizable is a derived term of fetishize.


As an adjective fetishizable

is that can be fetishized.

As a verb fetishize is

to make a fetish of; to obsess over.

fetishizable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That can be fetishized.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 2, author=Cintra Wilson, title=Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs. }}
  • * 2007 , Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture (page 137)
  • Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman. In this way every woman was a potentially fetishizable object and delinquent citizen.

    fetishize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *fetishise

    Verb

    (fetishiz)
  • To make a fetish of; to obsess over
  • Our society has fetishized personal wealth.

    Derived terms

    *fetishizable *fetishization *unfetishized