From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of admiring strongly [syn: {adoration}, {idolisation}]
2: worshiping blindly and to excess [syn: {idolisation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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