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DictionaryidolatryExcessive devotion
noun

idolatry

eye-DAH-luh-tree/aɪˈdɑːlətri/

Excessive devotion to someone or something.

The roomful of celebrity portraits suggests idolatry.

A fictional admirer devotes an entire room to one celebrity's portraits and neglects ordinary tasks, excessive devotion.
Etymology
eidōlolatriaEcclesiastical Greekworship of images

Worship of idols broadened into excessive devotion to any person or thing.

More examples

  • The essay criticizes the idolatry of wealth.
  • Their admiration grows into uncritical idolatry.

Forms

idolatry

Similar words

adulation
Emphasizes excessive praise.
obsession
An absorbing preoccupation without necessarily reverence.