Incubus vs Titan - What's the difference?
incubus | titan |
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
Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
* 2014 , Michael White, "
As nouns the difference between incubus and titan
is that incubus is an incubus while titan is titanium.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 ----titan
English
Noun
(en noun)Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.