adoration
n. uncountablen. a feeling of very deep love and respect for someone or something.
n. deep love, devotion, or profound respect for a person or deity. Often implies a level of intensity that borders on worship.
The fans looked at the singer with pure adoration.
The young child gazed at his older brother with a look of quiet adoration as they played together.
While the public's adoration for the hero was initially unanimous, it eventually gave way to a more nuanced appreciation of his complicated legacy.
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.
Commonly paired with the preposition 'for' to indicate the object of the emotion.