fetishization
noun
fetishization is a noun meaning “The act or process of fetishizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-T-I-S-H-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fetishization is fetishizations.
What does fetishization mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of fetishizing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fetishization
- fetishizations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fetishization?
Fetishization appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fetishization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process of fetishizing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fétichisation |
| Portuguese | fetichização |
| Spanish | fetichización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fetishization come from?
From fetish + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).