daemonic
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8.6
- adjective
- /diˈmɒnɪk/
- Specialized
Examples
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In this daemonic inspiration of music, however, there is a problem.
Academic text (2000) -
Though they constitute his daemonic influences, Mann does not simply copy them.
Academic text (2000) -
Virtually nothing of it is unearthly, otherworldly, or daemonic.
Academic text (2000) -
Being fooled into taking the extreme risk of being more than himself, Adrian is thus led by the daemonic promise of being able to transcend himself in music, whose organization of time will also lead him to think that he can live forever.
Academic text (2000) -
In the family tent where we were quietly waiting for the trumpet to announce our appearance, I thought, suddenly, how I or any one of us could destroy the family, and in that moment I was appalled at the thought that I might be moved by some daemonic will to destroy the act of the family.
Fiction book (1991) -
Part V is the most complex track in terms of percussive fervor and is almost entirely based on this, besides sparsely placed hissing and more barely noticeable vehement, daemonic voices as they appear through the wind in the story at the end.
Blog text (11) -
A daemonic process runs in the background of your computer, managing tasks without any user input.
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The programmer noticed the daemonic application consuming significant system resources while running quietly.
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To improve performance, the software includes a daemonic service that updates automatically in the background.
Synonyms
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4.0
Machines or computers run a system instead of people
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6.7
A machine that works automatically without people needing to control it
How Autonomous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word daemonic comes from an old Greek word daimon meaning 'spirit' and is the same root as the common word demon, so you can imagine an invisible helper working on its own. That's why in computing a daemonic process is a background program that quietly does tasks without direct user action.