adulation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Excessive flattery or admiration.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Servile flattery; excessive or unmerited praise; exaggerated compliment.
• noun Synonyms Adulation, Flattery, Compliment. These are varieties of praise. Adulation is servile and fulsome, proceeding either from a blind worship or from the hope of advantage. It may not be, but generally is, addressed directly to its object. Flattery is addressed to the person flattered; its object is to gratify vanity, with or without a selfish ulterior object. It is generally praise beyond justice. Compliment is milder, and may be expressive of the truth; it may be sincere and designed to encourage or to express respect and esteem. We may speak of a compliment, but not of an adulation or a flattery. Adulation of the conqueror; gross or delicate flattery of those in power; the language of compliment. In conduct, the correspondent to adulation is obsequiousness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Flattery; fulsome praise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise