adulation

English

Etymology

From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)

1. Flattery; fulsome praise.

   He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     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 Thesaurus:flattery

Related terms

• adulate
• adulator
• adulatory

Translations

Flattery; fulsome praise

• Arabic: تَمَلُّق m (tamalluq), مَلَق (malaq)
• Bulgarian: ласкателство (bg) (laskatelstvo)
• Catalan: adulació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奉承 (zh) (fèngchéng), 吹捧 (zh) (chuīpěng), 諂媚／谄媚 (zh) (chǎnmèi)

• Czech: pochlebování n, vychvalování n
• Danish: smigreri n
• Finnish: mielistely (fi), imartelu (fi)
• French: adulation (fr) f
• German: Lobhudelei (de) f, Vergötterung (de) f
• Hungarian: hízelgés (hu)
• Indonesian: puji-pujian, puja-pujaan, pujian, pujaan
• Italian: adulazione (it) f
• Latin: adulātio f
• Maori: enenga
• Norwegian: grov (no) smiger,, smisking c
• Portuguese: adulação (pt) f
• Romagnol: adulaziôn f
• Russian: ле́сть (ru) f (léstʹ), подхали́мство (ru) n (podxalímstvo)
• Swedish: kryperi n, rövslickeri n

See also

• admiration
• adoration

Anagrams

• laudation

French

Etymology

From Latin adulātiōnem (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

adulation f (plural adulations)

1. adulation

Related terms

• aduler
• adulateur

Further reading

• “adulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.