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hero worship

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

  • noun Intense or excessive admiration for someone regarded as a hero.

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  • noun admiration for great men (or their memory)

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synonyms (173)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Amor
  2. Christian love
  3. Druidism
  4. Eros
  5. Parsiism
  6. Platonic love
  7. Sabaism
  8. Zoroastrianism
  9. accolade
  10. accord respect to
  11. admiration
  12. admire
  13. adoration
  14. adore
  15. adulate
  16. adulation
  17. affection
  18. agape
  19. animal worship
  20. apotheosis
  21. apotheosize
  22. appreciate
  23. appreciation
  24. approbation
  25. approval
  26. ardency
  27. ardor
  28. attachment
  29. awe
  30. belaud
  31. bepraise
  32. bepraisement
  33. bless
  34. blow up
  35. boast of
  36. bodily love
  37. brag about
  38. breathless adoration
  39. brotherly love
  40. caritas
  41. celebrate
  42. charity
  43. congratulation
  44. conjugal love
  45. consideration
  46. courtesy
  47. cry up
  48. defer to
  49. deference
  50. deification
  51. deify
  52. demonism
  53. demonolatry
  54. desire
  55. devil worship
  56. devotion
  57. duty
  58. eloge
  59. emblazon
  60. encomium
  61. entertain respect for
  62. esteem
  63. estimation
  64. eulogium
  65. eulogize
  66. eulogy
  67. exaggerated respect
  68. exalt
  69. exaltation
  70. excessive praise
  71. extol
  72. faithful love
  73. fancy
  74. favor
  75. fervor
  76. fetishism
  77. fire worship
  78. flame
  79. flatter
  80. flattery
  81. fondness
  82. free love
  83. free-lovism
  84. glorification
  85. glorify
  86. glory
  87. great respect
  88. heart
  89. heathenism
  90. high regard
  91. hold in esteem
  92. hold in reverence
  93. homage
  94. hommage
  95. honor
  96. iconoduly
  97. iconolatry
  98. idol worship
  99. idolatrousness
  100. idolatry
  101. idolism
  102. idolization
  103. idolize
  104. idolizing
  105. idolodulia
  106. idolomancy
  107. image worship
  108. kudos
  109. lasciviousness
  110. laud
  111. laudation
  112. libido
  113. like
  114. liking
  115. lionize
  116. lionizing
  117. look up to
  118. love
  119. lovemaking
  120. magnification
  121. magnify
  122. make much of
  123. married love
  124. meed of praise
  125. overpraise
  126. paean
  127. paganism
  128. panegyric
  129. panegyrize
  130. passion
  131. pay tribute
  132. phallic worship
  133. phallicism
  134. physical love
  135. popular regard
  136. popularity
  137. porter aux nues
  138. praise
  139. prestige
  140. prize
  141. puff
  142. puff up
  143. pyrolatry
  144. regard
  145. respect
  146. revere
  147. reverence
  148. reverential regard
  149. salute
  150. sentiment
  151. sex
  152. sexual love
  153. shine
  154. snake worship
  155. spiritual love
  156. star worship
  157. sun worship
  158. tender feeling
  159. tender passion
  160. think highly of
  161. think much of
  162. think well of
  163. tree worship
  164. tribute
  165. truelove
  166. trumpet
  167. uxoriousness
  168. value
  169. venerate
  170. veneration
  171. weakness
  172. worship
  173. yearning

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. admiration
  2. esteem

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