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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).
fetishize, fetishise [ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz]
vb
(Psychology) (tr) to be excessively or irrationally devoted to (an object, activity, etc.)
fetishization , fetishisation n
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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.
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She fetishizes everything from red sports shorts to a bust she's carving of the Russian leader.
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The "transformative technology" of print unsettles, disturbs, implicates, compels, challenges, threatens, works on the body, opens up urban space (or "fragments" it by listing the marchers in a procession), fetishizes, changes conceptions, "gives new resonance to urban disruption," and facilitates subjectivity (13-14, 153, 95, 225, 171, 165 and passim).
Rome: A City out of Print. by Turner, James Grantham / Renaissance Quarterly
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