self-worship
noun
self-wor·ship
ˌself-ˈwər-shəp 
also -ˈwȯr-
: extravagant admiration for or devotion to oneself : worship of oneself : self-idolatry
Thanks to social media, young people take constant photos of themselves in a kind of self-worship.—
Ed Leap
Ed LeapSimilarly, to watch the endless stream of award shows for Hollywood titans is to subject yourself to a narcissistic spectacle of collective self-worship.—Jonah Gould
Jonah Gould
self-worshipper
ˌself-ˈwər-shə-pər
noun
also -ˈwȯr-
or self-worshiper
plural self-worshippers or self-worshipers
We have become a nation of hedonists and self-worshipers.
—Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh
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Unfortunately, Costner, who directed, puffs it up and turns the self-worship up to an impossible-to-sit-through level (this movie is 177 minutes long!), and ends it with the infamous statue of himself — the perfect metaphor for a movie star who may have gone off the deep end.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 1 July 2024
Aesthetically, Jünger had no time for Alfred Rosenberg’s mystical blood-and-soil racial self-worship.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 1 July 2024
Aesthetically, Jünger had no time for Alfred Rosenberg’s mystical blood-and-soil racial self-worship.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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“Self-worship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-worship. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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