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Adulation vs Idolization - What's the difference?

adulation | idolization |

As nouns the difference between adulation and idolization

is that adulation is flattery; fulsome praise while idolization is the act of idolizing, adoring or worshiping, especially to excess.

adulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Flattery; fulsome praise.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • * 1919 , ,
  • It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admiration * adoration

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    idolization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of idolizing, adoring or worshiping, especially to excess