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

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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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