idolatry
n.n. the act of worshiping a person or thing as if they were a god. It can also mean having an extremely high level of respect or admiration for someone.
n. the worship of a person or thing as a deity; the excessive veneration of a person or object. Often used metaphorically to describe intense, almost religious devotion to a celebrity or a specific belief.
The fans showed their idolatry for the famous singer.
The philosopher criticized the idolatry of the new technology, arguing that people were treating it as a god rather than a tool.
While the early church sought to eliminate idolatry from public life, modern secular societies often face a different form of the same problem in the form of consumerist worship.
Inherited from Middle English ydolatrie, from Old French idolatrie, from Ecclesiastical Latin īdōlatrīa, from Late Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολατρίᾱ (eidōlolatríā, “worship of idols”), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “idol”) & λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”) or λατρεύω (latreúō, “I worship”), from λάτρον (látron, “payment”). Equivalent to idol + -latry. Cognate with Modern French idolâtrie, Italian idolatria, Occitan ydolatria, Portuguese idolatria, and Spanish idolatría. Displaced native Old English dēofolġield (literally “devil worship”).