Synonyms for hero worship
hero wor·ship

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1. hero worshipverb

   admiration for great men (or their memory)

2. idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship, revereverb

   love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

   "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

   Synonyms:
   worship, fear, idolize, revere, reverence, hero-worship, venerate, idolise

Suggested Resources

1. hero worship

   Read the full text of the Hero Worship poem by Robert William Service on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Daniel J. Boorstin:

   Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

2. Curtis Houck:

   If we've learned anything over the past week, it's that CNN is not only a cult, but a cult of maniacal proportions, initially, one could argue the accolades for Zucker were a combination of fear about what he can still do to peopleand true hero worship, but it quickly became evident that it was entirelythe latter.

3. Alicia Nash:

   He was very, very good looking, very intelligent, it was a little bit of a hero worship thing.