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fétichiser

French, verb/fe.ti.ʃi.ze/

fétichiser is a French verb meaning “to fetishize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Considérer comme un fétiche quelque chose qui ne l’est pas”.

What does fétichiser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to fetishize

    Quel bénéfice y a-t-il à ressusciter, pour la fétichiser, cette mère archaïque, dont l'image ne peut que terrifier ? (Charles Grivel, Dracula : de la mort à la vie, 1997)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Considérer comme un fétiche quelque chose qui ne l’est pas.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of fétichiser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • fétichisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • fétichisé participle past
  • fétichise first-person indicative present
  • fétichises indicative present second-person
  • fétichisons first-person indicative plural
  • fétichisez indicative plural present
  • fétichisent indicative plural present
  • fétichisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • fétichisait imperfect indicative singular
  • fétichisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • fétichisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • fétichisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • fétichisai first-person historic indicative
  • fétichisas historic indicative past
  • fétichisa historic indicative past
  • fétichisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce fétichiser?

  • /fe.ti.ʃi.ze/
  • \fe.ti.ʃi.ze\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to fétichiser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.