archaeolatry

noun

1. Worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.

   uncountable

   Here Axioti opposes to ethnocentric archaeolatry one's "painful" relation to the present and past, which is based on the search for authentic, not superficial, signals of this continuity .

Where it comes from

From archae- + -o- + -latry, from Ancient Greek: ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) in combination with λατρεία (latreía, “service", "worship”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry archaeolatry (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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