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demonophobia

demonophobia noun: an irrational fear of demons.

Noun

demonophobia (uncountable)

  1. An irrational fear of demons.
    • LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an...1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382
    • it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals, page 74

demonophobia meaning in Tamil

demonophobia in Tamil

கழுது வெருளி

Examples of demonophobia in a sentence

  • The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities.1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382:
  • I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434:

Origin of demonophobia

From demono- + -phobia.

Questions about demonophobia

What does demonophobia mean?
Demonophobia means an irrational fear of demons.
What is demonophobia in Tamil?
Demonophobia in Tamil is கழுது வெருளி. See Demonophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use demonophobia in a sentence?
The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities.
What part of speech is demonophobia?
Demonophobia is a noun.

Words near demonophobia in the dictionary

  1. demonomaniacs
  2. demonomist
  3. demonomists
  4. demonomy
  5. demonopathy
  6. demonophobia
  7. demonopolization
  8. demonopolizations
  9. demonopolize
  10. demonopolized
  11. demonopolizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demonophobia (page history and authors); demonophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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