devotee

Noun

1. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
   • He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
   • a devotee of classical music
   • These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. - 1908 January...

   Synonyms: addict buff aficionado amateur enthusiast devotee fancier fan fiend freak junkie maniac votary zealot

2. A believer in a particular religion or god.
   • devotees of Krishna
   • devotees thronged the temple
   • It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both. - 1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of...
3. A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.
   • The amputee-devotee community, consisting of women with amputations and the men sexually attracted to them, has been widely discussed within the disability community. - 2004, Alison Kafer, “Inseparable: Gender and...
   • He becomes involved in a story about a community of wannabes and devotees, those who desire to be sexually intimate with disabled bodies, and meets Fiona, an art conservator and wannabe, or disabled pretender. - 2019,...
   • One of the paradoxical issues facing people with disabilities are "devotees": temporarily able-bodied people who are attracted to them because of their disabilities.[…]Although some women with disabilities experience a...