Synonyms for idolatry
aɪˈdɒl ə triidol·a·t·ry

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   adoration, worship, reverence

2. idolatrynoun

   The worship of idols.

   Synonyms:
   worship, reverence, adoration

3. idolatrynoun

   The admiration of somebody or something.

   Synonyms:
   adoration, reverence, worship

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1. idolatry, devotion, veneration, cultismnoun

   religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

   Synonyms:
   fear, devotion, reverence, devotedness, idol worship, veneration, cultism, awe

2. idolatry, idol worshipnoun

   the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God

   Synonyms:
   veneration, cultism, devotion, idol worship

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   worship of idols

2. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   excessive love, excessive veneration

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1. Martin Luther:

   Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

2. Mary Baker Eddy:

   Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

4. Northrop Frye:

   Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

5. Robert Jeffress:

   In suggesting that God is ‘queer’ Swarthmore College is guilty of nothing short of modern day idolatry, when you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality.