adoration

UK/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/US/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,024 of 15,258leans written

Adoration is deep love and admiration. Look at him with adoration.

It is stronger than affection and carries a hint of worship, which the word originally meant. Adoration is what a small child gives a parent and what nothing later quite matches.

Definitions of adoration

1nounadorationDeep love and admiration.B2+
“The whole room watched her with something close to adoration.”

adoration is a feeling.

Where it comes from

Latin adoratio comes from adorare, to worship, from ad plus orare, to speak or pray.

Latin
adōrātiō — worship, adoration
Middle French
adoration
English, today
adoration

Built from

adōrō · Latin — beseech; adore, worship
ad · Latin — to, towards
ōrō · Latin — beg

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

adoration in the wild

When the exposition and adoration of the Eucharist is constant (twenty-four hours a day), it is called perpetual adoration.
Eucharistic adoration
Pope Benedict XVI instituted perpetual adoration for the laity in each of the five sectors of the Diocese of Rome.
Eucharistic adoration
Like the episode preceding it, the adoration is a common subject in art, where it is often combined with the Adoration of the Magi.
Adoration of the Shepherds

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the adōrō family

adore

adoration — used about once every 5,661 pages · #10,024 · point at the bar for the others

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