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n. - Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers.

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  • The fetich is a symbol of the desired person, thus the handkerchief and glove of the woman or the hat of the man.
  • Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure.
  • "Not this summer -- that cat has spent these last two summers with human beings who have treated him as a kind of fetich -- just as we do!"
  • Binet maintains that these articles play the part of the "fetich" in early theology.
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