noun: hero worship, excessive admiration for someone;
in ancient Greece the worship of superhuman heroes;
verb: hero-worship; admire someone excessively,
idolization, adulation, admiration, lionization;
"the hero worship of his fans soon became unsettling to him"
noun
reverence, veneration, adoration, glorification,
glory, exaltation, devotion, praise, thanksgiving,
homage, honor, magnification, service,
religious rite, prayer, praise, devotion,
religious observance, admiration, adulation,
idolization, lionization, hero worship, adoration;
verb
revere, reverence, venerate, pay homage to,
honor, adore, praise, pray to, glorify, exalt,
extol, hold dear, cherish, treasure, esteem,
adulate, idolize, deify, hero-worship, lionize,
overpraise, follow, look up to, put on a pedestal,
laud, magnify, hero-worship, revere, idolize