How to say "fetish" in Japanese

• フェチ
  nounThe shortened form of フェティッシュ. It refers to a personal fixation or strong liking, often a sexual one, and is a less common alternative to 性癖 for talking about someone's tastes.
  彼女かのじょのフェチが緊縛きんばくと支配しはいでしょう。↗

  I guess she's into bondage and domination.
• 呪物じゅぶつ
  nounA less common word for the religious or anthropological sense of 'fetish': an object believed to have supernatural powers. It is not the word for a person's sexual tastes.
• フェティッシュ
  nounThe full loanword, of which フェチ is the shortened form. Like English 'fetish' it is used for a sexual fixation or strong attachment, and it is a less common alternative to 性癖.
• 性癖せいへきCommon
  nounThe common, colloquial word for a person's sexual disposition or tastes. It covers sexual inclinations generally, not only fetishes in the strict sense, and is the usual everyday choice.
• 諸物しょぶつ
  nounA less common word that is seldom the right choice for either sense of 'fetish': for an object believed to have supernatural powers use 呪物, and for a person's sexual tastes use 性癖.

For sexual tastes use the common colloquial 性癖; for an object believed to have supernatural powers use 呪物; 「フェティッシュ」 and its abbreviation 「フェチ」 are less common loanword options; 諸物 is seldom the right choice.

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• フェチfetish
• 呪物じゅぶつfetish (object believed to have supernatural powers)
• フェティッシュfetish
• 性癖せいへきsexual disposition
• 諸物しょぶつfetish
• 属性ぞくせいfondness (for)