adulation.

Praise or admiration so intense that it becomes excessive or uncritical.

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Words that belong together

• public adulation
• shower with adulation

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Public adulation made him forget how recently the crowd had doubted him.

She recoiled from the adulation that followed her first performance.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.