0 to consider something or someone important, interesting, or attractive to an unreasonable degree:
He wrote that museums are too often mausoleums, more invested in fetishizing dead culture than supporting a living one.
Unlike most site-based theatre productions, which tend to fetishise the city, she is interested in performance in rural landscapes.
Universities can so fetishize narrow forms of expertise that they drive out intellectuals.
In "The Maids," two role-playing servants fantasise about and fetishise their desirable and detestable mistress.
He accused them of fetishizing men of certain races and behaving like "sex tourists".