Definition of "fetishization" [fetishization]

• The act or process of fetishizing. (noun)

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• "Recent years also have seen an explosion in what might be described as a fetishization of these traditional female roles."
• "I did not mean to denigrate sexual practice; for the people who practice them, fetishization is as real and important as religious fetishization can be, or any other kind."
• "But this sort of fetishization is a private sort of thing, the same way that a heterosexual man who has the hots for Pamela Andersen might have posters of her in his bedroom, but is not likely to write erotic stories about her and email them to friends he might never have met in person but who share his erotic fascination with Ms. Andersen."