fetishes

Noun

fetish (countable and uncountable, plural fetishes)

1. Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
   • The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices.1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
2. (dated, animism) A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll.
   • This was the trunk of a large wooden doll […] now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. […] The last nail had been driven in with a fiercer stroke than usual, for the Fetish on that occasion represented aunt Glegg.1860, George Eliot, chapter VI, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons
3. 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.

   Synonyms:

   kink, objectophilia

4. 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. A recurrent theme of a specific thing.