#idolize
- To adore — To render a religious cult to the supreme divinity; to honor with the highest degree of mystical veneration. In a profane, secular, or everyday sense, the term means to love excessively, demonstrating a profound passion, blind admiration, or extreme attachment to a person, ideal, artwork, or activity.
- Adulated — Subject to excessive, blind, and fanatical admiration; extravagantly praised, idolized, or servilely flattered. The term describes the status of a person (celebrity, political leader, star athlete) or a cultural object transformed into an idol by the masses, receiving continuous praise and an uncritical idealization that overlooks any behavioral flaws or errors.