English-Portuguese translations for fetish

• fetiche
  Porém, não vejo o automóvel como fetiche. I do not, however, believe in the car as a fetish.
  Gostaria de dizer que não é de modo algum política da Comunidade fazer da harmonização um fetiche.I wish to say that certainly the Commission's policy is not to make a fetish of harmonization.
  O relatório ficou demasiado preso a um fetiche de crescimento económico, completamente incompreensível de um ponto de vista ecológico.The report was still far too wedded to a fetish of economic growth which is totally incomprehensible ecologically.

Definition of fetish

• Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
• An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession.

Examples

• I know a guy who has a foot fetish.
• a fetish for leather
• a fetish for deficit reduction

Related words

• fetishist
• fetishism
• fetishistic
• fetishize
• fetishizing
• fetishization
• necrofetishism
• fart fetish
• diaper fetishism