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From Middle English deificacion, from Middle French deifier +‎ -acion or borrowed directly from Latin deificātiō(n), from deific(ā) (“deify”) +‎ -tiō(n) (noun suffix), from de(i) (“god”) +‎ -ficō (“make”). By surface analysis, deif(y) +‎ -ication.

In the Christian, theological sense, influenced by the use of deificātiō(n) as Latin translation of Byzantine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

deification (usually uncountable, plural deifications)

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
Excessive praise.
A deified embodiment.
- 2013, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice:
  We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
(Christianity, theology) Union with God; theosis.
- 2010, Paul M. Collins, Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion, page 108:
  There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.

(act of deifying): divinisation or divinization; apotheosis; (chiefly Chinese contexts) euhemerization

Act of deifying

Arabic: تَأْلِيه m (taʔlīh)
Bulgarian: боготворене (bg) (bogotvorene)
Catalan: deïficació (ca) f
Danish: forgudelse c
Dutch: vergoding f, vergoddelijking f
Finnish: deifikaatio, jumalallistaminen (fi)
French: déification (fr) f
German: Vergötterung (de) f
Greek: θεοποίηση (el) f (theopoíisi), αποθέωση (el) f (apothéosi)
Ancient: ἀποθέωσις f (apothéōsis)
Hungarian: megistenülés (hu)
Icelandic: dýrkun f
Macedonian: боготворење n (bogotvorenje)
Polish: deifikacja (pl) f
Portuguese: deificação (pt) f, endeusamento (pt) m
Russian: обожествле́ние (ru) n (obožestvlénije), боготворе́ние n (bogotvorénije)
Spanish: deificación f
Swedish: förgudning (sv) c