demono-, demon-, -demonic, -demon, -demonical, -demoniac, daemono-, -daemonic, -daemonical, -daemon, -daemoniac, -daemonia, -daemoniacally, -daimon, -daimonic +

Anyone who denies the existence of demons or the Devil.

1. In Greek religion, a good divinity or genius and a deity of good fortune, sometimes in the form of a serpent.

Primitive Greek belief sometimes regarded domestic snakes as reincarnations of ancestors; hence, as spirits friendly to the household. An antonym of cacodemon.

2. In Hermetic literature, a being regarded in part as a divinity, in part as a traditional teacher.

He received a libation of pure wine at the end of each meal. In Hellenistic, and in later times, he was associated with Tyche, the goddess of luck, as a somewhat impersonal providence. He also has been portrayed as a serpent or as a young man with a horn of plenty and a bowl in one hand and a poppy and ears of corn in the other hand.

Of or belonging to an agathodemon.

1. Opposed to demons.
2. Anything effective against evil spirits.

1. Obsession with demonic possession.
2. A condition in which the patient believes he/she is inhabited by, or possessed of, a devil or some other evil spirit.

1. An evil spirit or demon.
2. A name for nightmare.

A condition whereby a person is believed to be possessed by an evil spirit.

One possessed with an evil spirit.

A reference to, or relating to, evil spirits.

1. A reference to an evil, or bad, spirit, devil, or demon.
2. Relating to, involving, or resembling demons; demoniac.

A delusion that one is, or is about to be inhabited by or possessed of, a devil or some evil spirit (demon).

1. A mythological being that is part-god and part-human.
2. A mythological guardian spirit or a spirit that is supposed to take care of a person or place.
3. A piece of computer software that carries out background tasks; such as, filtering or debugging, at fixed intervals or in response to specific events.
4. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.

"A daemon and a demon are not one and the same thing. It is daemon, in its Platonic sense of a being intermediary between gods and men, not demon with its Judaeo-Christian import of an unclean, evil, or malignant spirit that we must keep in mind."

1. Befitting a demon; fiendish.
2. Motivated by a spiritual force or genius; inspired.

An intensive fear of demons (spirits, goblins, etc.).

The practice of magic with the help of demons.