Fetish may refer to:
- Fetishism, the attribution of religious or mystical qualities to inanimate objects, known as fetishes.
- Sexual fetishism, sexual fixation with objects, body parts, or situations not conventionally viewed as being sexual in nature.
- Commodity fetishism, a Marxist concept of valuation in capitalist markets
- Fetish model
- Fetish (album) (1999), by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
- Growth Fetish, the pursuit of economic growth in politics and economic theory as a universal cure for all society's problems
- Fetish fashion, clothing fetishes
- Zuni fetishes, small carvings from various stones, made by the Zuni Indians
- Venturi Fétish, a car produced by Venturi Automobiles.
- Fetish, a fictional superheroine in the Bomb Queen series.
Famous quotes containing the word fetish:
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
“An ... important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)