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fetishize

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fet·ish·ize  (ft-shz)
tr.v. fet·ish·ized, fet·ish·iz·ing, fet·ish·iz·es
To make a fetish of: "The American public schools . . . have in the space of a few years gone from neglecting computers to fetishizing them" James Traub.
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Verb1.fetishize - make a fetish of
adore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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Kondo is an intermittent geisha and cosmopolitan artist who fetishizes the white male body; his narrative voice fluctuates between elevated aesthetic revelry and melancholic longing for the absent father.
"In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard ... by Schmidt, Tyler T. / African American Review
The lack of perceptible weather can make people do funny things, too, so Angelenos fetishize their winter clothing.
SHE WON'T BE SNOWED BY L.A.'S FASHIONISTAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In the sex and entertainment industries, the Orientalist fantasies of First World men are rehearsed on the bodies of brown women even as First World women fetishize the safe nanny-love of their migrant maids.
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Naynaha, Siskanna / Radical Teacher
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