demonology

English

Etymology

From demon +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˌdiːməˈnɒləʤi/
• (US) IPA: /ˌdiːməˈnɑːləʤi/

Noun

demonology (plural demonologies)

1. The study of demons, especially the incantations required to summon and control them.
   • 1990: Terry Pratchett, Eric, p 27,

     But it wasn't all that strange, because any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons.

Derived terms

• demonologist

Translations

study of demons

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: демонология (bg) (demonológija) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 鬼神學 (cmn), 鬼神学 (cmn) (guǐshénxué), 魔鬼研究 (cmn) (móguǐ yánjiū), 惡魔學 (cmn), 恶魔学 (cmn) (èmóxué) Croatian: demonologija (hr) f. Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: demonologio (eo) Finnish: demonologia (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Dämonologie (de) f. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: demonológia (hu)

Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Ido: demonologio (io) Italian: demonologia (it) f. Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ភូតវិទ្យា (km) (pʰuut vityie) Korean: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Polish: demonologia (pl) f. Portuguese: demonologia (pt) f. Russian: демонология (ru) (demonológija) f. Spanish: demonología (es) f. Swedish: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can