Hero-worship synonyms

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adoration
Great love, devotion, and respect
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apotheosis
Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification.
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breathless adoration
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deification
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
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exaggerated respect
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idolization
The act of idolizing, adoring or worshiping, especially to excess
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worship
An object of worship.
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idolize
To adore excessively; to revere immoderately.
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idolise
(British) Alternative spelling of idolize.
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revere
To revere is to think very highly of someone or to greatly admire someone.
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self-loathing (related)
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cross-dressing (related)
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chivalrous (related)
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Find another word for hero-worship. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hero-worship, like: adoration, apotheosis, breathless adoration, deification, exaggerated respect, idolization, worship, idolize, idolise, revere and self-loathing.
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Hero-worship Sentence Examples

  • The sentiment of hero-worship was at all times strong in the Romans, and no one was ever the object of more sincere as well as simulated hero-worship than Augustus.

  • No fault, in this respect, can assuredly be found with the legendary Rama, a very paragon of knightly honour and virtue, even as his consort Sita is the very model of a noble and faithful wife; and yet this cult has perhaps retained even more of the character of mere hero-worship than that of Krishna.

  • Froude's famous portraiture of Henry is coloured by the ideas of hero-worship and history which the author imbibed from Carlyle, and the rival portraits in Lingard, R.

  • Again, the worship of Dionysus, and of Demeter and Persephone, is mainly or wholly post-Homeric. The greatest difference, however, lies in the absence of hero-worship from the Homeric order of things.

  • awe-struck tones of hero-worship.

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