The urge to worship something could be described as a deification syndrome.
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Deification
Synonyms for "deification" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀποθέωσις noun (Act of deifying)
Arabic
1 entries- تَأْلِيه noun (Act of deifying)
Bulgarian
1 entries- боготворене noun (Act of deifying)
Catalan
1 entries- deïficació noun (Act of deifying)
Danish
1 entries- forgudelse noun (Act of deifying)
Dutch
2 entries- vergoddelijking noun (Act of deifying)
- vergoding noun (Act of deifying)
Finnish
2 entries- deifikaatio noun (Act of deifying)
- jumalallistaminen noun (Act of deifying)
French
1 entries- déification noun (Act of deifying)
German
1 entries- Vergötterung noun (Act of deifying)
Greek
2 entries- αποθέωση noun (Act of deifying)
- θεοποίηση noun (Act of deifying)
Hungarian
1 entries- megistenülés noun (Act of deifying)
Icelandic
1 entries- dýrkun noun (Act of deifying)
Macedonian
1 entries- боготворење noun (Act of deifying)
Polish
1 entries- deifikacja noun (Act of deifying)
Portuguese
2 entries- deificação noun (Act of deifying)
- endeusamento noun (Act of deifying)
Russian
2 entries- боготворе́ние noun (Act of deifying)
- обожествле́ние noun (Act of deifying)
Spanish
1 entries- deificación noun (Act of deifying)
Swedish
1 entries- förgudning noun (Act of deifying)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
Source: wiktionary
There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.
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