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fetishisation en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Portuguese feitiçobor. French fétichebor. English fetish English -isation English fetishisation From fetish + -isation.

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fetishization.
    • Their in-group formation is developed through the fetishisation of the terrorist image in propaganda and ‘terrorwave’ – a visual style in which the aesthetics of the militant are worshipped. 2023 May 4, Joshua Molloy, “Terrorwave: The Aesthetics of Violence and Terrorist Imagery in Militant Accelerationist Subcultures”, in Global Network on Extremism and Technology:

Forms

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