fetishistic
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˌfɛtɪˈʃɪstɪk/
- Specialized
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fetichista
- The nostalgia contained within the film is invariably symptomatic of this great loss, as is the film's fetishistic preoccupation with the maternal.
Examples
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And their collective near-fetishistic avoidance of disagreement misses the point of the process:
Blog text (15) -
The son becomes the culminating point of his fetishistic adoration.
Academic text (2002) -
Unit One and the DRU were, however, far more interested in design's abstraction than its fetishistic excess.
Academic text (2000) -
Like Bonifacio, Emma feels a fetishistic adoration for her forbears.
Academic text (2002) -
With a staff of about forty, it strives to keep a large curatorial team of people as fetishistic about the collections as they are interested in social phenomena.
Academic text (2008) -
Starting by tossing out her fetishistic possessions, Mies's clean sweep ends with the wholesale elimination of a woman's body.
Fiction book (1992) -
There is a tension in Francis's essay between the fetishistic search for the "authentic" Indian that so fascinates the white world, and the much-repeated fact that many Indian celebrities have been inauthentic.
Academic text (2014) -
Many fans have a fetishistic admiration for vintage cars, collecting them obsessively.
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His fetishistic interest in rare coins led him to spend thousands on his collection.
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She approached the project with a fetishistic attention to detail, ensuring everything was perfect.
Synonyms
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4.8
Very strongly interested in someone or something and thinking about them all the time
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5.6
Unable to stop doing something because of a strong, repeated urge
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7.9
Having a strong, unhealthy need that harms daily life
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7.5
Showing extreme and unreasonable support for a person or idea
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6.8
Very strong support for an idea or cause without question
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4.3
Showing very strong enthusiasm for a cause in a way that ignores reason
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7.7
Having strong, repeated thoughts or worries that are hard to stop
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9.9
Being very focused on one idea and ignoring other things
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Morphology
Etymology
Fetishistic comes from fetish, which comes from Portuguese feitiço meaning 'magic charm'. So to be fetishistic is to give an object or idea too much attention, as if it had special power.