fetishize

1. (transitive) To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.Examples: "Our society has fetishized personal wealth."; "John's unteachers ignore the letter of their target text, while fetishizing the letter of their own."; "London, the only actor who feels like she’s playing a real character and not a public-service announcement, reacts realistically to scenarios where Shelley fetishizes her Blackness, but it’s all for naught."transitive

2. (transitive) To make into a fetish, or magical object.Examples: "Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization."transitive