cult of personality

English

Alternative forms

personality cult

Noun

cult of personality (plural cults of personality)

A situation where a leader (often a dictator) has been falsely idolized and made into a national or group icon and is revered as a result.

Translations

situation of being falsely idolized

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: عِبَادَة شَخْصِيَّة‎ f (ʿibāda šaḵṣiyya)
Armenian: անձի պաշտամունք (anji paštamunkʿ)
Belarusian: культ асо́бы m (kulʹt asóby)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 個人崇拜 (zh), 个人崇拜 (zh) (gèrén chóngbài)
Danish: personkult c, personlighedskult c
Estonian: isikukultus
Finnish: henkilöpalvonta
French: culte de la personnalité (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Personenkult (de) m
Hebrew: פולחן אישיות‎ (he)
Indonesian: kultus individu (id)

Japanese: 個人崇拝 (こじんすうはい, kojin sūhai)
Korean: 개인숭배 (gaeinsungbae)
Kurdish: kulta şexsiyetek‎ (kulta şexsiyetek)
Latvian: personības kults m
Lithuanian: asmenybės kultas m
Polish: kult jednostki m
Portuguese: culto de personalidade m, culto da personalidade m
Romanian: cultul personalității (ro) n
Russian: культ ли́чности (ru) m (kulʹt líčnosti)
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: culto a la personalidad m
Swedish: personkult (sv) c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: культ осо́би m (kulʹt osóby)

See also

cult of personality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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