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Kingfisher Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Fetish

Hi all,

I tried to look up the meaning of " fetish" in dictionaries and I found it but it's still fuzzy to me.

thanks in advance
  

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Hello Kingfisher In anthropology, it means an object that is believed to have supernatural or magical powers, and is thus treated with great reverence. Metaphorically, it means an object or part of the body with which you have an obsession, often sexual in nature. For instance, someone might have a sexual fetish/fetiche about shoes or women's feet.

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Kingfisher In anthropology, it means an object that is believed to have supernatural or magical powers, and is thus treated with great reverence.
  • Metaphorically, it means an object or part of the body with which you have an obsession, often sexual in nature.
  • For instance, someone might have a sexual fetish/fetiche about shoes or women's feet.
  • Loosely, you can also apply it to an abstraction with which someone has an unhealthy obsession: for instance, someone might have a fetish about 'never ending a sentence with a preposition'.
  • ) MrP
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Hello Kingfisher

In anthropology, it means an object that is believed to have supernatural or magical powers, and is thus treated with great reverence.

Metaphorically, it means an object or part of the body with which you have an obsession, often sexual in nature.

For instance, someone might have a sexual fetish/fetiche about shoes or women's feet.

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