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Heartless vs Demoniac - What's the difference?

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Heartless is a related term of demoniac.


As adjectives the difference between heartless and demoniac

is that heartless is without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring while demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon.

As a noun demoniac is

someone who is possessed by a demon.

heartless

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.
    • His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.
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    Derived terms

    * heartlessly * heartlessness

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    demoniac

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daemoniac *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • possessed or controlled by a demon.
  • Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
  • * 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
    • Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:
    • There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is possessed by a demon.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 53:
  • *:The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].

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