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Demonism

Definition: Demonism

Demonism

Noun

1. The worship of devils (especially Satan).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Demonism

Synonym: diabolism (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Demonism

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Idolatry

Noun: idolatry, idolism; demonism, demonolatry; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Demonism

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Demonism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

demonism

2
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Modern Translations: Demonism

Language Translations for "demonism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

demonismo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

demonismo. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şeytani güçlere inanma. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

віра в існування нечистої сили, поклоніння демонам. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tin ma quỷ (diabolism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Demonism

Derivations

Words beginning with "demonism": demonisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Demonism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demonise, pelmanism. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Demonism"

Words rhyming with "demonism" (pronounced 'De"mon*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Demonism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-m-n-o-s"

-1 letter: domines, emodins, misdone.

-2 letters: demons, denims, domine, donsie, emodin, eonism, mimeos, modems, mondes, monied, monies, monism, nimmed, noised, nomism, onside.

-3 letters: deism, demon, demos, denim, dimes, dines, disme, domes, eidos, eosin, memos, mends, meson, miens, mimed, mimeo, mimes, minds, mined, mines, misdo, modem, modes, momes, monde, monie, nides, nodes, noise, nomes, nosed, omens.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: demonisms, modernism, seminomad.

 

+2 letters: communised, demimondes, discommend, incommodes, misnomered, modernisms, neodymiums, seminomads.

 

+3 letters: compendiums, discommends, embodiments, eudaemonism, eudaimonism, misdemeanor, misinformed, seminomadic, somatomedin.

 

+4 letters: admonishment, commanderies, commissioned, decommission, demolishment, discommended, endomorphism, eudaemonisms, eudaimonisms, hemodynamics, impoundments, misdemeanors, pandemoniums, semidominant, somatomedins.

 

+5 letters: admonishments, commandership, commendations, decommissions, demimondaines, demolishments, discommending, dynamometries, endomorphisms, immoderations, incommodities, medicamentous, postmodernism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Demonism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 6D 6F 6E 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#109 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 006D 006F 006E 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871798180758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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