| 释义 |
fetishize, v.|ˈfɛtɪʃaɪz|
[Back-formation f. fetishized adj. s.v. fetish n.: see -ize.]
trans. To make a fetish of; to pay undue respect to, to overvalue.
1934in Webster. 1961I. L. Horowitz Philos., Sci., & Sociol. of Knowl. v. 57 Present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition. 1973Screen Spring/Summer 198 The only way to avoid fetishising cinematic specificity is to examine it, as Metz has done, in a systematic and relative way. 1986S. Orbach Hunger Strike i. 23 The preoccupation with food is linked with a fetishizing of the female form.
Also fetishiˈzation n., the action or an instance of fetishizing.
1934in Webster. 1973M. Jay Dialectical Imagination v. 155 The fetishization of the economy was left to more orthodox Marxists. 1985Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 67/1 A common vision of social therapy: the fetishization of sunshine, hygiene, labor, and the out-of-door. |
