demonomania means An unnatural fear of devils and Hell. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DEMONOMANIA — [Noun] A pathological condition characterized by either an intense fear of demons and hell or the delusional belief that one is possessed by demons. From the Latin daemonomania, itself from Greek daimon- ("divinity, spirit, demon") and -mania ("madness, frenzy"). Unlike demonophobia, a clinical fear without conviction of inhabitation, or monomania, a generalized obsession, demonomania is a complete psychic occupation where terror and identity merge. It is the frantic deciphering of damnation in the creak of floorboards, the tracing of unexplained bruises as a map of infernal geography, and the raw throat from screaming in a tongue not one’s own—the ultimate horror of being a haunted house where the ghost is you.
noun
- An unnatural fear of devils and Hell.
- A delusion that one is possessed by devils.