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Fetishize vs Fetishizer - What's the difference?

fetishize | fetishizer |

As a verb fetishize

is to make a fetish of; to obsess over.

As a noun fetishizer is

one who fetishizes.

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

    fetishizer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who fetishizes.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 14, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Daring to Take a Chisel to Two Monuments of Jazz, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=A Jazz at Lincoln Center concert in their honor is almost something to dread: not necessarily because the records are technically beyond reach, but because such an event can quickly become a knowing lob to the fetishizers . }}