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Fetishisation and fetishism are similar, but not quite the same, as I understand it.
Fetishisation is related more to the overvaluation and/or sexualisation of something.
Fetishism is the process of making something a 'fetish'*, or the embodied form of abstract ideas which then supplants or discards the ideas it came to represent.
(*Similar to an 'idol' in the process of Idolatry)
I think I've got that right someone please step in if not. In common usage I think the two terms are basically interchangeable (let's say that searching either term online is almost NSFW) however in this case they are not.
This is incorrect