noun
- a person who has an excessive and irrational commitment to or obsession with something
- a person who believes that an inanimate object has magical powers
Usage: anthropology
Examples
- He was a technology fetishist who had to own every new gadget.
- The collector was such a vintage car fetishist that his garage was completely full.
- Some people become brand fetishists, only buying products from certain companies.
- The anthropologist studied how fetishists in the tribe viewed sacred objects.
- She called him a cleanliness fetishist because of his obsessive tidying habits.