demonophobia

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English

Etymology

demono- +‎ -phobia

Noun

demonophobia (uncountable)

  1. An irrational fear of demons.
    • 1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1‎, page 382:
      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 obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...
    • 2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals‎, page 74:
      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)
    • 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6‎, →ISBN, page 434:
      The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.
    • 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6‎, →ISBN, page 434:
      Demonophobia may take the epidemic form.
      A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.

References

  1. ^ “demonophobia, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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