- (usually disapproving)
the fact that a person spends too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing or thinks that it is more important than it really is 迷恋；癖 the fact of getting sexual pleasure from a particular object （从某物获得性快感的）恋物 to have a leather fetish 有恋皮革癖
an object that some people worship because they believe that it has magic powers 奉若神明之物；物神
Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally denoting an object used by the peoples of West Africa as an amulet or charm): from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço ‘charm, sorcery’ (originally an adjective meaning ‘made by art’), from Latin facticius, from facere ‘do, make’.