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fetish

About 0.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll.
  3. noun Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or non-sexual, such as an object or a non-sexual part of the body.
    I know a guy who has a foot fetish.
  4. noun An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.
    He has been talking about the same topic for hours on end, I suspect he may have a fetish
  5. noun A recurrent theme of a specific thing.

Similar words

hoodoo juju voodoo fetich charm obsession fixation talisman taliswoman apotropaion

Often followed by

of for is and in to object or worship

Word family

fetich fetiches fetishes

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