Idolatry

Noun

 * 1) The worship of idols.
 * 2) The admiration of somebody or something.

Related terms

 * idol
 * idolatrous
 * idolatrously
 * -latry

Synonyms

 * adoration
 * reverence
 * worship

Adjectives for Idolatry
social; long-upheld; popular; passionate; bloody; religious; foolish; enthusiastic.

Thesaurus
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, accolade, admiration, adoration, adulation, affection, agape, allotheism, animatism, animism, anthropolatry, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, arborolatry, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bepraisement, bibliolatry, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, congratulation, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, deference, deification, demonolatry, desire, devotion, duty, eloge, encomium, esteem, estimation, eulogium, eulogy, exaggerated respect, exaltation, excessive praise, faithful love, fancy, favor, fervor, flame, flattery, fondness, free love, free-lovism, glorification, glory, great respect, heart, heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, hero worship, high regard, homage, hommage, honor, hygeiolatry, iconolatry, idolism, idolization, idolizing, kudos, lasciviousness, laud, laudation, libido, like, liking, lionizing, litholatry, love, lovemaking, magnification, married love, meed of praise, monolatry, ophiolatry, overcommendation, overestimation, overlaudation, overpraise, overprizing, paean, pagandom, paganism, paganry, panegyric, passion, patriolatry, physical love, physiolatry, phytolatry, popular regard, popularity, praise, prestige, pyrolatry, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, tribute, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, weakness, worship, yearning

Etymology
From idolatrie:, ydolatrie:, from  idolatria:, from ecclesiastical  idololatria:, from  εἰδωλολατρία:, back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης: (idolatra: in Latin), from εἴδωλον: + λάτρις: or λατρεύω:, from λάτρον:; cognate with modern  idolâtrie:,  idolatria:,  ydolatria:, and  idolatria:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: идолопоклонничество
 * Czech: modlářství, modloslužebnictví
 * German: Götzendienst, Idolatrie ; Vergötterung
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: íolacht, íoladhradh
 * Manx: jalloonys
 * Old English:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German: Vergötterung, Bewunderung


 * Greek: ειδωλολατρία (iδololatría)
 * Hungarian: bálványozás

Anagrams

 * adroitly
 * dilatory