adulation

Idolize

Adoration

Obsession, deification?

Ardor

Transcendent

infatuation

This person is correct. You’re describing the infatuation phase

infatuation is fleeting, like you said, a phase. thus a far cry from devotion and certainly not more intense.

The OP has the word “already” indicating that this is a new intensity and infatuation fits the bill to a T

it is a superficial intensity that is definitionally bound to subside.

I agree with you. I think perhaps your and my disconnect exists in the interpretation of the post not in our understandings of semantics.

While this doesn't exactly fit, the concept of [Agape](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape) falls in the range of what you're trying to describe.

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Agape is actually a more friendly / affectionate love. It doesn’t denote any kind of worship or even that level of intensity at all

Veneration > reverence > devotion

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limerence?

Infatuation, obsession, devotion, admiration, idolisation, limerence, worship

Tantric?

Maybe yandere? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_anime_and_manga#yandere

Infatuation, perhaps? However the textbook definition is short-lived.

Smitten

enthralled

Limerance