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fetishization

fetishization noun: the act or process of fetishizing.

Noun

fetishization (countable and uncountable, plural fetishizations)

  1. The act or process of fetishizing.
    • To put it epigrammatically, fetishization of the commodity is accompanied by fantasization of the self.1992, David Brett, C.R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, page 129

Forms of fetishization

pluralfetishizations

Origin of fetishization

From fetish + -ization.

Questions about fetishization

What does fetishization mean?
Fetishization means the act or process of fetishizing.
What part of speech is fetishization?
Fetishization is a noun.
What is the plural of fetishization?
The plural of fetishization is fetishizations.

Words near fetishization in the dictionary

  1. fetishistic
  2. fetishistic necrophiliac
  3. fetishistically
  4. fetishists
  5. fetishizable
  6. fetishization
  7. fetishizations
  8. fetishize
  9. fetishized
  10. fetishizer
  11. fetishizers

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