Deifier

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who elevates someone or something to divine status or idealizes them in an extraordinary manner
2. An individual who bestows reverence or worship upon another, treating them as a god or supreme being
3. Someone who transforms a subject into an object of veneration, often attributing supernatural qualities to it

Etymology: "Deifier" is built from "deify," which comes from Latin "deificare," meaning to make into a god, and the English suffix "-er," which marks a person who performs an action. So a deifier is simply one who deifies, in the sense of raising someone to the status of a god or treating them with godlike worship. The base verb carries the real weight of the meaning. "Deify" was formed from Latin "deus," god, combined with the verb-forming element "-ficare," from "facere," to make. To deify someone is literally to make them divine, and the noun adds the agent sense, so the word names whoever carries out that act of making or regarding someone as a god. Because the word is a straightforward combination of an existing verb and a common suffix, its history is simple: nothing in it has shifted sharply from its original sense. Its meaning remains close to the literal sense of making a god out of a person.

Synonyms: idolizer, worshiper, admirer

Antonyms: critic, detractor, disbeliever