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

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

self-worshipper

ˌself-ˈwər-shə-pər 

 also  -ˈwȯr-

noun

or self-worshiper

plural self-worshippers or self-worshipers

We have become a nation of hedonists and self-worshipers.

—Matt Walsh

Examples of self-worship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1583, in the meaning defined above