fetish
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear
Types & categories
- sexual desire hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
Types & categories
- good luck charm hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
made a fetish of cleanliness
Types & categories
- devotion hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sexual desire |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fetishist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | voodoo |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hoodoo |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | good luck charm |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fetishist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fetishize |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | devotion |