Symbolatry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The worship of symbols. uncountable

    "And then, upon this thoroughly baseless assumption, the critic proceeds to read all of us a lecture upon our sacrilegious symbolatry, and the dreadful abyss into which we are hurrying with fatal velocity."

  2. 2
    the worship of symbols wordnet

Synonyms

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symbol worshipsymbol-worshipsymbololatry

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"And then, upon this thoroughly baseless assumption, the critic proceeds to read all of us a lecture upon our sacrilegious symbolatry, and the dreadful abyss into which we are hurrying with fatal velocity."

Etymology

From symbol + -latry.

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