adoration

Meaning

1. (countable) An act of religious worship.
2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
5. (countable, uncountable) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Synonyms

worship

reverence

admiration

veneration

prayer

idolization

homage

honour

cult

devotion

praise

worshipping

love

❤️

idolisation

latria

idolatry

glorification

fondness

cultism

esteem

namely

obeisance

salutation

service

idolizing

illness

infirmity

entreat

madness

attachment

memory

divine service

delirium

prostration

respect

deification

religion

Yasna

tenderness

thought

💭

venerate

deference

volition

warmth

worry

bow

🙇

worshipfulness

audition

concentration on

idolising

Translations

adoration

adorazione

adoración

adoração

λατρεία

Verehrung

Anbetung

venerazione

Bewunderung

adoració

adoratie

aanbidding

culto

vénération

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).
From adore + -ation.