demonic
or dae·mon·ic
- inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- demoniac(def 1).
Origin of demonic
Synonyms for demonic
daemon
- Classical Mythology.
- a god.
- a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
- a demon.
Origin of daemon
Examples from the Web for daemonic
Historical Examples of daemonic
There is in the music a daemonic quality, inherent in the subject, that somehow vanishes with the concrete tale.
That which I called the daemonic I had encountered for the first time outside my own mind in Lermontof's hero.
Recollections Of My Childhood And YouthGeorge Brandes
I was daemonic in giving myself this reply it seemed to me that I had solved the riddle of my nature.
Recollections Of My Childhood And YouthGeorge Brandes
Wherein the 'daemonic element,' that lurks in all human things, may doubtless, some once in the thousand years—get vent!
The French RevolutionThomas Carlyle
National Death; or else some preternatural convulsive outburst of National Life;—that same, daemonic outburst!
The French RevolutionThomas Carlyle
demonic
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a demon; fiendish
- inspired or possessed by a demon, or seemingly sodemonic laughter
daemon
daimon
- a demigod
- the guardian spirit of a place or person
- a variant spelling of demon (def. 3)
Word Origin and History for daemonic
daemon
alternative spelling (in specialized senses) of demon (q.v.). Related: Daemonic.
demonic
1660s, from Latin daemonicus, from daemon (see demon). Demonical is from late 15c.