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demonicity

demonicity noun: the quality of being demonic.

Noun

demonicity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being demonic.
    • Certainly the heroes, according to a tradition that for Diogenes Laertius goes back as far as Pythagoras, already offer all the characteristics of aerial demonicity: they dwell in the air and influence men by inspiring them with signs indicating disease and health.1993, Giorgio Agamben, translated by Ronald L. Martinez, “Between Narcissus and Pygmalion”, in Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (Theory and History of Literature; 69), Minneapolis...
    • Here is the inevitable Manichaean counterpart to [Joseph-François] Lafitau's restoration of the world's divinity, or mana-⁠-the world's demonicity.1997, Mary Baine Campbell, “Faith, Flesh, and Science: Anthropology Made in America, 1724”, in Dorothy Figueira, editor, La construction de l’Autre (Peuples Méditerranéens / Mediterranean Peoples...

Synonyms of demonicity

Origin of demonicity

From demonic + -ity.

Questions about demonicity

What does demonicity mean?
Demonicity means the quality of being demonic.
What part of speech is demonicity?
Demonicity is a noun.

Words near demonicity in the dictionary

  1. demonical
  2. demonicality
  3. demonically
  4. demonicalness
  5. demonicism
  6. demonicity
  7. demonicness
  8. demonifies
  9. demonifuge
  10. demonifuges
  11. demonifugic

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