demonicity

Meanings

noundemonicity (uncountable)

rareuncountableThe quality of being demonic.
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; 78), Paris: Éditions Anthropos, →OCLC, page 89
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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, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, part III (The Word and the Phantasm […]), page 119
In fact, the demonic quality of the episode of Ugolino, in the spectacular representation of cannibalism as well as in the veil through which Ugolino’s story is perceived, is the very demonicity of Cocytus at large.
1998, Edoardo Sanguineti, “Canto xxxiii: Count Ugolino [della Gherardesca] and Others”, in Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross, editors, Inferno: A Canto-by-Canto Commentary (Lectura Dantis; 1), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 430
Synonyms: demoniacality, demoniacalness, demonicality, demonicalness, demonicness