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idolization
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun idolization has 2 senses
- idolization(n = noun.act) adoration, idolisation - the act of admiring strongly; Array is a kind of admiration, appreciation
- idolization(n = noun.act) idolisation - the act of worshiping blindly and to excess; Array is a kind of worship
has particulars: glorification
Derived form verb idolize1
has particulars: bardolatry
Derived form verb idolize1
THESAURUS
idolization
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, anthropolatry, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, arborolatry, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bibliolatry, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, deference, deification, demonolatry, desire, devotion, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faithful love, fancy, favor, fervor, fetishization, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, hygeiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry, idolism, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, litholatry, love, lovemaking, married love, monolatry, ophiolatry, passion, patriolatry, physical love, physiolatry, phytolatry, popular regard, popularity, prestige, pyrolatry, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, weakness, worship, yearning
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