cult of personality

English

Alternative forms

• personality cult

Noun

cult of personality (plural cults of personality)

The giant statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, Mansu Hill Grand Monument, North Korea.

1. A situation where a leader (often a dictator) has been 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 (ʕibāda šaḵṣiyya)
• Armenian: անձի պաշտամունք (anji paštamunkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: şəxsiyyətə pərəstiş
• Belarusian: культ асо́бы m (kulʹt asóby)
• Catalan: culte a la personalitat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 個人こじん崇拜すうはい／个人崇拜すうはい (zh) (gèrén chóngbài)

• Danish: personkult c, personlighedskult c
• Dutch: persoonlijkheidscultus (nl) m, persoonscultus m, persoonsverheerlijking (nl) f
• Estonian: isikukultus
• Finnish: henkilöpalvonta (fi)
• French: culte de la personnalité (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Personenkult (de) m
• Hebrew: פֻּלְחָן אִישִׁיּוּת (he) m (pulkhán isiyút)
• Hungarian: személyi kultusz (hu)
• Indonesian: kultus individu (id)
• Irish: cultas pearsan m
• Italian: culto della personalità m
• Japanese: 個人こじん崇拝すうはい (こじんすうはい, kojin sūhai)
• Korean: 개인숭배(個人こじん崇拜すうはい) (gaeinsungbae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kulta şexsiyetek

• Latvian: personības kults m
• Lithuanian: asmenybės kultas m
• Polish: kult jednostki (pl) 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
• Thai: ลัทธิบูชาบุคคล
• Turkish: kişi kültü, kişilik kültü
• Ukrainian: культ осо́би m (kulʹt osóby)
• Vietnamese: sùng bái cá nhân

See also

• cult of personality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia