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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adoration \Ad'o*ra"tion\, noun [L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F. adoration.]
1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. --Farmer.
2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. --Froude.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adoration
noun
1: a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: {worship}]
2: the act of admiring strongly [syn: {idolization}, {idolisation}]
3: worship given to God alone [syn: {latria}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "adoration": Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, affection, agape, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, churchgoing, co-worship, conformity, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, crush, cult, cultism, cultus, deference, deification, desire, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dulia, dutifulness, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faith, faithful love, faithfulness, fancy, favor, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, hyperdulia, idolatry, idolism, idolization, infatuation, lasciviousness, latria, libido, like, liking, love, love of God, lovemaking, married love, observance, passion, physical love, pietism, piety, piousness, popular regard, popularity, prestige, prostration, regard, religion, religionism, religiousness, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, theism, transcendent wonder, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, weakness, worship, worshipfulness, worshiping, yearning
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