hero worshipper
Definition
Noun: A person who has an intense, often uncritical, admiration for heroes or famous people. This admiration typically involves idealizing their qualities, achievements, or status.
Usage
The term describes a person's characteristic attitude or behavior. It is used to identify someone who engages in the act of hero worship. * He was a lifelong hero worshipper, filling his room with posters of famous astronauts. * The biography was written not by a detached historian but by a devoted hero worshipper. * As a young hero worshipper, she would follow every detail of her favorite scientist's career.
Advanced Usage
- The term can sometimes carry a mild negative connotation, implying that the admiration is excessive, naive, or excludes a realistic view of the hero's flaws.
- The critic dismissed the author's perspective, calling him a mere hero worshipper incapable of objective analysis.
Variants and Related Words
- Hero Worship (n): The act or practice of worshipping heroes.
- The culture of hero worship in sports is very prevalent.
- Hero-Worship (v): To admire or revere someone as a hero.
- A generation of young musicians hero-worshipped the jazz legend.
Synonyms
- Admirer
- Devotee
- Idolizer
Related Idioms/Phrases
- To put someone on a pedestal: To admire someone so much that you treat them as perfect. This idiom describes the action characteristic of a hero worshipper.
- She realized she had been putting her mentor on a pedestal and ignoring his advice was a mistake.
Noun
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someone who worships heroes
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