Fetish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FETISH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fixation, also FETICH, FETICHE
• a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc.
• an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing
• an inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.
• A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
• Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
• 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
• a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
• excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
• irrational devotion (to an object, activity, etc)
ADJECTIVE:
• Alt. of Fetishistic
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an object believed to have magical power
• sexual pleasure derived from an inanimate object

Words related to FETISH

fetich14 fetishes14

Words that contain FETISH

fetishes14 fetishise15 fetishism17 fetishist15 fetishize24 fetishised17 fetishises16 fetishisms18 fetishists16 fetishized26 fetishizes25 fetishising18 fetishistic19 fetishizing27 fetishisation19 fetishization28 fetishisations20 fetishizations29 fetishistically26

How to use FETISH in a sentence

• Nor can I guess what peculiarity about the plant can have first made the Negro fix on it as a fetish.
• The rigorous taboo of the Sabbath was revived, the theatre was denounced, the corruption of human nature became the dominant theme, and the Bible more a fetish than ever.
• As for poor old Anita, I believe she thinks it is our Fetish.
• Except for some quaint fetish about the necessity for maintaining the usual diplomatic forms, there is no necessity for delay in emergencies of this description.
• Variety is very good so far, but we are in danger of making a fetish of changes and variations.
• That distrust is today a fetish and therefore much more potent that it was when it was a reason.
• Nor, again, ought the professed worship of devils to be tolerated, more than the Fetish worship, or the African witchcraft, was tolerated in the West Indies.
• The keynote of his conception, then, was his revolutionary substitution of the primitive Elizabethan and early seventeenth century method for the fetish of the single line.
• She regarded it as something beyond her comprehension, as a fetish to be worshipped.
• I doubt if the grossest of Fetish worshippers ever imagined that a stone must have a god within it to make it fall, or that a fruit had a god within it to make it taste sweet.
• Zamenhof in refusing to make a fetish of slavish adherence to rule.
• By studying religions in groups and incidentally, they learned to distinguish the fetish in each.
• A similar fetish had been put up at a river near Moinsey to stop the British troops.
• The Strasburg fetish had its usual crowd of admirers.
• The worship of the dollar has become a fetish, and the man or the nation that had the money felt that it was ordained of God to rule the universe.
• This tree was a fetish tree, and the stakes also fetish, and therefore a strong injunction was issued not to tie the horses to either of them.
• The method adopted of proving the guilt or innocence of the parties, was, by compelling them to swallow the fetish water.
• The noise made by these people on their starting, in bawling to their fetish through the trumpets, was beyond all description.
• The discipline is the same, the conventionality and the presiding fetish of Good and Bad Form.
• We in vain attempted to induce them to come on board, for, pointing in reply to their Fetish, they gave us to understand that this was either prohibited or imprudent.
• But, at the last moment, a negro was put up to answer to a charge of participation in Fetish rites.
• A great hill, a rock any way remarkable for its size or shape, or a large tree, is generally the national Fetish.
• For so many centuries had the fetish of circular motion postponed discovery.
• The west African fetish acts as a police, and property protected by it is safer than under civilized laws.
• Food and palm wine are placed beside the path with a piece of fetish suspended near by, and no one will touch them without leaving the proper payment.
• But the worship of a God who needs forgiveness and help, and deserves pity every hour of his existence, is no better than that of any other voluntarily selected fetish.
• Pixley dropped his pince-nez among the reporters below, he was utterly unable to continue until the fetish was recovered and handed back to him.
• This is known as Fetish Rock from the legend that the natives used to throw live people from it into the river as sacrifices.
• Physical strength and courage at this time were his fetish.
• Religion is life, and fetish an expression of the practical recognition of dominant forces in which the Negro lives.

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