Definition of self-worship
: 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 Similarly, 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
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The first known use of self-worship was in 1583
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