What is the difference between incubus and succubus?
incubus | succubus |
An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
*, vol. I, New York 2001, p.249:
Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 132-3:
*:Notions of civic virtue were at that moment changing, in ways which would make of Louis's alleged vices an incubus on the back of the monarchy.
One of various of parasitic insects, especially
A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.
* 1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies , Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
A strumpet, whore or prostitute.
* S. J. PERELMAN "This is a hyperthyroid dame who fastens on ya like a succubus."
Succubus is a synonym of incubus.
As nouns the difference between incubus and succubus
is that incubus is an evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep while succubus is a female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.incubus
English
(wikipedia incubus)Noun
(en-noun)- it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus , night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "incubus")Synonyms
* (a nightmare) nightmareHypernyms
* (an evil spirit) evil spirit, spiritSee also
* incubous * succubus ----succubus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi , take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.
