The word "idolization" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the admiration and reverence of someone or something, especially when it is not justified. For example, "The teenager idolized her favorite celebrity, copying her every move and wearing matching clothes."
Her idolization made sense in one so young, but to learn at the beginning of the book that a 26-year-old Jean Louise is still sheltered in this way feels too blithe and naive.
Lake Hollywood (2000) chronicles the lives of dissatisfied people and the futility of their idolization of celebrities, and Chaucer in Rome (2002), a sequel to The House of Blue Leaves, satirizes art, religion, and fame.
Whatever Freud said, idolization is not the only form of aggression.
A newspaper tycoon forces opera into the private fantasy he is imposing on his wife; Afro-Brazilian and African-American musicians negotiate a treacherous landscape of idolization, condescension, and repression.
The idolization of a woman in running attire is surprising in a country that remains rooted in Muslim tradition and whose prime minister has been relentlessly trying to bring it back to a more conservative state.
And I love sitting in a theater where I feel the comforting weight of an audience engrossed in a film; of being among people who understand the quiet idolization and respectful attention that great movies deserve.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps described heaven for a generation saturated in Victorian idolization of the family and devastated by the carnage of the Civil War: for Phelps and her readers, it was impossible to imagine an afterlife in which intimate family reunion was not central.
Other similarities: both brides were college-educated commoners and cut stunning yet nervous figures during the event; both grooms have been the subject of teen idolization for their looks.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi commands allegiance verging on idolization among her ethnic group, the Burman, who make up about two-thirds of Myanmar's population of 55 million.
Instead of being schooled in the "culture of peace," the next generation of Palestinians is being relentlessly fed a rhetorical diet that includes the idolization of terrorists, the demonization of Jews and the conviction that sooner or later Israel should cease to exist.
The musician J. Ralph, a nominee for his song "Before My Time" (performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell) from the documentary "Chasing Ice," likewise went up to Mr. Spielberg to pledge his idolization.
