fetishizable

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English

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Etymology

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fetishize +‎ -able

Adjective

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fetishizable (comparative more fetishizable, superlative most fetishizable)

  1. That can be fetishized.
    • 2007 August 2, Cintra Wilson, “Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party”, in New York Times[1]:
      WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs.
    • 2007, Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, page 137:
      Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman. In this way every woman was a potentially fetishizable object and delinquent citizen.