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fetishizable en · ADJ

Etymology

From fetishize + -able.

Meanings

1. That can be fetishized.
   • WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs. 2007 August 2, Cintra Wilson, “Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party”, in New York Times:
   • Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman. In this way every woman was a potentially fetishizable object and delinquent citizen. 2007, Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, page 137:

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