fetish
fetish Lexical Profile
fetish Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A form of sexual desire in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular object, item of clothing, or non-genital part of the body.
"In psychological literature, the clinician distinguished between a harmless preference and a clinical fetish."
A course of action, object, or idea to which one has an excessive and irrational commitment or obsession.
"The director had a fetish for absolute punctuality and refused to start meetings even a minute late."
An inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.
"The anthropological museum displayed carved wooden fetishes collected from West Africa in the nineteenth century."
• Rhymes for fetish
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century via French fétiche from Portuguese feitiço ('charm, sorcery'), which originally meant 'artificial' or 'made by art,' from Latin factīcius, derived from facere ('to make').