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Fervor vs Adoration - What's the difference?

fervor | adoration |

As nouns the difference between fervor and adoration

is that fervor is (us) an intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor while adoration is (countable) an act of religious worship.

fervor

English

Alternative forms

* (Commonwealth spelling ) fervour

Noun

  • (US) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
  • (US) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
  • (US) Heat.
  • Synonyms

    * (passionate enthusiasm) fire in the belly, zeal

    adoration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) An act of religious worship.
  • * a. 1779 ,
  • We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
  • (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
  • * 1890,
  • ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
  • (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
  • * 1887,
  • He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.