daemon

noun4

1. •
   A minor deity or divinity.

   • On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.⁸⁸ On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons. — 2018
2. •
   A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
3. •
   A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.

   • Coleridge, deep in daemons, looked to them for his poetic power: They gave him Kubla Khan, Christabel, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He welcomed his daemon or genius and yet feared it. — 2015
4. •
   An idea depicted as an entity.