FETISH

also fetich noun Etymology: French & Portuguese; French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from feitiço artificial, false, from Latin facticius factitious Date: 1613 1. an object (as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner, an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion ; prepossession , an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object of fixation to the extent that it may interfere with complete sexual expression, a rite or cult of ~ worshipers, fixation