fetish

1. 1.

   a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body

   “common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear”

   Broadersexual desire
2. 2.

   a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

   Synonymsjujuvoodoohoodoofetich

   Broadercharm
3. 3.

   excessive or irrational devotion to some activity

   “made a fetish of cleanliness”

   Synonymsfetich

   Broaderdevotion

Other forms of fetish

plural

fetishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fetish

What does fetish mean?

fetish means "a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fetish?

fetish has 2 syllables: fet-ish. The stress falls on "fet". In IPA it is /ˈfɛtɪʃ/.

What is another word for fetish?

Close synonyms include juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetich, fetich. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fetish a common word?

fetish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.