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You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Tony Kushner

Meaning of "fetishize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FETISHIZE

fetishize  [ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FETISHIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fetishize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fetishize in English.

WHAT DOES FETISHIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fetishize in the English dictionary

The definition of fetishize in the dictionary is to be excessively or irrationally devoted to.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FETISHIZE

PRESENT

Present
I fetishize
you fetishize
he/she/it fetishizes
we fetishize
you fetishize
they fetishize
Present continuous
I am fetishizing
you are fetishizing
he/she/it is fetishizing
we are fetishizing
you are fetishizing
they are fetishizing
Present perfect
I have fetishized
you have fetishized
he/she/it has fetishized
we have fetishized
you have fetishized
they have fetishized
Present perfect continuous
I have been fetishizing
you have been fetishizing
he/she/it has been fetishizing
we have been fetishizing
you have been fetishizing
they have been fetishizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I fetishized
you fetishized
he/she/it fetishized
we fetishized
you fetishized
they fetishized
Past continuous
I was fetishizing
you were fetishizing
he/she/it was fetishizing
we were fetishizing
you were fetishizing
they were fetishizing
Past perfect
I had fetishized
you had fetishized
he/she/it had fetishized
we had fetishized
you had fetishized
they had fetishized
Past perfect continuous
I had been fetishizing
you had been fetishizing
he/she/it had been fetishizing
we had been fetishizing
you had been fetishizing
they had been fetishizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will fetishize
you will fetishize
he/she/it will fetishize
we will fetishize
you will fetishize
they will fetishize
Future continuous
I will be fetishizing
you will be fetishizing
he/she/it will be fetishizing
we will be fetishizing
you will be fetishizing
they will be fetishizing
Future perfect
I will have fetishized
you will have fetishized
he/she/it will have fetishized
we will have fetishized
you will have fetishized
they will have fetishized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been fetishizing
you will have been fetishizing
he/she/it will have been fetishizing
we will have been fetishizing
you will have been fetishizing
they will have been fetishizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would fetishize
you would fetishize
he/she/it would fetishize
we would fetishize
you would fetishize
they would fetishize
Conditional continuous
I would be fetishizing
you would be fetishizing
he/she/it would be fetishizing
we would be fetishizing
you would be fetishizing
they would be fetishizing
Conditional perfect
I would have fetishize
you would have fetishize
he/she/it would have fetishize
we would have fetishize
you would have fetishize
they would have fetishize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been fetishizing
you would have been fetishizing
he/she/it would have been fetishizing
we would have been fetishizing
you would have been fetishizing
they would have been fetishizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you fetishize
we let´s fetishize
you fetishize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to fetishize
Past participle
fetishized
Present Participle
fetishizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FETISHIZE


aerosolize
ˈɛərəsɒlˌaɪz
archaize
ˈɑːkɪˌaɪz
atheize
ˈeɪθɪˌaɪz
citizenize
ˈsɪtɪz ənˌaɪz
diphthongize
ˈdɪfθɒŋˌaɪz
euphuize
ˈjuːfjuːˌaɪz
fetishise
ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz
ghettoise
ˈɡetəʊˌaɪz
Hebraize
ˈhiːbreɪˌaɪz
jasperize
ˈdʒæspərˌaɪz
Judaize
ˈdʒʊdeɪˌaɪz
kaolinize
ˈkeɪəlɪnˌaɪz
linearize
ˈlɪnɪərˌaɪz
masculinise
ˈmæskjʊlɪnˌaɪz
masculinize
ˈmæskjʊlɪnˌaɪz
metropolitanize
ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪtənˌaɪz
nomadize
ˈnəʊmædˌaɪz
restabilize
ˌriːˈsteɪbɪlˌaɪz
rhetorize
ˈretərˌaɪz
riotise
ˈraɪətˌaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FETISHIZE

fetichist
fetichistic
fetichize
feticidal
feticide
fetid
fetidity
fetidly
fetidness
fetiparous
fetish
fetish-like
fetishisation
fetishise
fetishism
fetishist
fetishistic
fetishistically
fetishization
fetlock

WORDS THAT END LIKE FETISHIZE

anarchize
anthropomorphize
apostrophize
biographize
catechize
empathize
eunuchize
fetichize
hierarchize
monarchize
philosophize
sympathize
telepathize
theosophize

Synonyms and antonyms of fetishize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fetishize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FETISHIZE

Find out the translation of fetishize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fetishize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fetishize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

fetishize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fetiche
570 millions of speakers

English

fetishize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fetishize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fetishize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фетишируют
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fetichizar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

fetishize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fétichiser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fetishize
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fetischisieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fetishize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fetishize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fetishize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

fetishize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fetishize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बधीरपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fetişize
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

feticizzare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fetyszyzować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фетишується
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fetishize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φετιχοποιούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fetishize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fetischerar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fetishize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fetishize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FETISHIZE»

The term «fetishize» is regularly used and occupies the 78.329 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FETISHIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fetishize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fetishize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fetishize

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «FETISHIZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fetishize.
1
Tina Fey
I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.
2
Tony Kushner
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FETISHIZE»

Discover the use of fetishize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fetishize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces
To fetishize the commodity is to fetishize abstract exchange-value — to worship, that is, at the altar of the Financial Times or The Wall Street Journal which trace the number of paper cups that will buy you an academic book, the number of ...
Patricia Spyer, 1998
2
(Con)fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions: Spanish American ...
More than raising consciousness about conditions in Latin America, the video sells Juan Luis Guerra's product —the compact disc Areito.3 The dance scenes fetishize the human body as an image of sexual desire. I would argue that ...
Robert Alan Neustadt, 1999
3
Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind ...
Studio adaptations fetishize the apparatus of literature: printed words and books, authors and their collected works. The films of Merchant Ivory fetishize the lost lady figuring the costs of cultural conflict against an exotically handsome ...
Thomas Leitch, 2009
4
We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan ...
Put differently, my goal here is to avoid the twin dangers that plague contemporary discussions of revolutionary change in Latin America in particular: the tendency to fetishize the state, oflicial power, and its institutions and the opposing ...
George Ciccariello-Maher, 2013
5
Perceptions of Teacher Educators: Effects of the No Child ...
I'm not there to fetishize whiteness; I'm not there to fetishize ethnicness; I'm not there to fetishize their [students'] longings to stay in their comfort zones. I am there to create an opportunity for them to think about themselves as instruments of ...
Connie F. Jordan, University of Wyoming. College of Education, 2007
6
Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign
Restricting the definition of fetish to visible objects also works to deflect consideration of the ways that people fetishize the iterative or repetitive na- ture of experience itself. This can be understood, for example, by reference to addiction, where ...
Ken Hillis, 2009
7
The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and ...
Our wealth gets shitted away ultimately, because it is never circulated and always privately consumed. But the Foi do not fetishize defecation because they don't glorify the oral cavity, that is, they don't fetishize consumption, as Westerners do.
James F. Weiner, 1995
8
(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern
More than raising consciousness about conditions in Latin America, the video sells Juan Luis Guerra's product —the compact disc Areito.3 The dance scenes fetishize the human body as an image of sexual desire. I would argue that even the ...
Robert Neustadt, 2005
9
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
And yet I suspect the tendency—which society defines as “unhealthy”—is programmed into us biologically as males. The content, however, varies: muscles this decade, mustaches the last. BOB: So the tendency to fetishize is preprogrammed, ...
John Dececco, Phd, Bob Guter, John R Killacky, 2014
10
Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of ...
Feminist scholars have rejected Freud's premise that only men can fetishize. Ultimately, so did Freud. Although Freud never published on women fetishists, minutes from a meeting of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society illustrate Freud's view ...
Richard Fantina, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FETISHIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fetishize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
This Film May Be The Most Authentic Depiction of Transgender … - Mic
Rather than allowing the media to polarize trans representation — to either fetishize trans deaths or laud trans figures as brave heroes — we ... «Mic, Jul 15»
2
Why is DFA's album art for "Virgins" so Cringeworthy? | NOISEY
I guess that cod aren't really a great fish to fetishize since they do like to swim in cold water. Although if DFA were to write a song about wanting ... «Noisey, Jul 15»
3
What American Airports Can Learn From the Rest of the World – Skift
In a world where we fetishize the logistics potential of Uber and Postmates and startups claiming to re-invent the world, why was this ... «Skift, Jul 15»
4
The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” - The New …
... many critics who absorb vast quantities of studio-era movies fetishize the styles and take the results and the methods of studio filmmaking for ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
5
Prelog's European Kitchen: Dazzling technique and missed potential
Self-assuredness, if not arrogance, surely erases some of the intrinsic weirdness of people wanting to fetishize their name. Prelog's European ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
6
Shotgun Wedding: What It's Like to Get Married at a Gun Range - Vice
"We live in a society where a certain subset of gun owners fetishize firearms, talking them as something akin to religious idols," he said. "There ... «VICE, Jul 15»
7
How an eternal optimist joined #TeamSell
I do not fetishize prospects and we all know the odds of their success in baseball (I saw Matt Anderson's Major League debut from the ... «Bless You Boys, Jul 15»
8
This Guy Hasn't Driven In Three Years So We Took Him To A Race …
... the future of planet earth's ecosystem or wonder what it is about human nature that compels us to fetishize giant pieces of machinery that hurl ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»
9
Budget 2015: Why do we call social security payments 'benefits …
Discussions around welfare simultaneously demonise those who rely on social security and fetishize the 'hard working family', not realising that ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
10
Artists Space Mounts Massive Tom of Finland Retrospective (NSFW)
After a stint in the army (whose officers he would fetishize on paper), Tom studied music and freelanced in graphic design, eventually rising to ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»

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