Usually means: Assign excessive significance to object.
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  1. fetishize: Merriam-Webster
  2. fetishize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fetishize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fetishize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fetishize: Vocabulary.com
  6. fetishize: Wordnik
  7. fetishize: Wiktionary
  8. fetishize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fetishize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fetishize: Dictionary.com
  11. fetishize: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fetishize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fetishize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make into a fetish, or magical object.

Similar:
fetichise, fetichize, obsess, sexify, eroticize, subjectify, eat, breathe, and sleep, fixate, like like, addict, more...

Opposite:
demonize, devalue, disparage, disregard

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Similar:
fetichise, fetichize, obsess, sexify, eroticize, subjectify, eat, breathe, and sleep, fixate, like like, addict, more...

Opposite:
demonize, devalue, disparage, disregard



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