MEANING
Worship directed toward images or objects, or excessive devotion to a person or ideal.
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Words that belong together
- religious idolatry
- political idolatry
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The essay condemns the idolatry of power.
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- idolatry
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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