demoniacality

Noun

demoniacality (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being demoniacal.
   • Verdi is not our debtor in anything. There is in his music Shakesperian demoniacality: he shrinks not before such a redoubtable task as the composing of Iago’s grand monologue with its gloomy god-denying philosophy of life and death—and how high does he not soar in this scene!1901 March, Edvard Grieg, translated by Ethel Hearn, “[Giuseppe] Verdi”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After […], volume XLIX, number CCLXXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Leonard...
   • [A] demon is just what we’ve been needing for a long, long time for our squalid affairs, to gratify our squalid desires, the sort of demon, of course, who can be persuaded to believe that he is the demon who will take all our own demoniacality on his shoulders, an Antichrist bearing the Iron Cross...2004, Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson, Kaddish for an Unborn Child […], New York, N.Y.: Vintage International, →ISBN, page 39

   Synonyms:

   demoniacalness, demonicality, demonicalness, demonicity, demonicness