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Undead vs Lich - What's the difference?

undead | lich |

As nouns the difference between undead and lich

is that undead is those creatures which are dead yet still moving while lich is (archaic) a corpse or dead body.

As an adjective undead

is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

undead

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
  • (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia undead) (en-noun)
  • Those creatures which are dead yet still moving.
    • In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.
  • * 1997 , Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997
    • Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads , an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

    See also

    * zombie * vampire * mummy * living dead * Frankenstein * Frankenstein's monster

    lich

    English

    (wikipedia lich)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archaic) A corpse or dead body.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Poul Anderson , title=Time Patrolman , chapter= , url= , genre=Sci-Fi , publisher= , isbn=9780812530766 , page= , passage=She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich . }}
  • (fantasy, roleplay) A reanimated corpse or undead being.
  • *1974 , (Karl Edward Wagner), ‘Sticks’:
  • *:It was a lich ’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.

    • Derived terms

    * lichgate * lych-gate ----