demoniacality

Meanings

noundemoniacality (uncountable)

rareuncountableThe 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 Scott Publication Co., […]; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 453
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[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, and will not insolently slip through our fingers to string himself up before time, as [Nikolai] Stavrogin did.
2004, Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson, Kaddish for an Unborn Child […], New York, N.Y.: Vintage International, →ISBN, page 39
Another thing, which is leaving the divine things with their divinity, the worldly things with their worldliness and the subhuman things with their demoniacality, is, that before a person attains their own redemption and a development of the state about which we were talking with S. Kulovaný, they have to be educated not to themselves destroy the state, attained by a successful initiation, by their worldliness which is rooted in their mind.
2010, Květoslav Minařík, translated by Danica Klempová, “Initiation and self-initiation”, in Yoga and Buddhism in the Life of a Contemporary Person: Collection of Short Texts (The Direct Path; 1), Prague: Canopus, →ISBN, pages 239–240
Synonyms: demoniacalness, demonicality, demonicalness, demonicity, demonicness