Dictionary Definition
incubus
Noun
1 a male demon believed to lie on sleeping
persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
2 a situation resembling a terrifying dream [syn:
nightmare]
3 someone who depresses or worries others [also:
incubi (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Late Latin incubus < incubo ‘nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper’ < incubare ‘to lie upon, to hatch’ < in- ‘on’ + cubare ‘to lie’ < Proto-Indo-European base *keu(b)- ‘to bend, to turn’.Pronunciation
/ˈɪnkjuːbəs/Noun
Quotations
Translations
an evil spirit
a nightmare
- French: cauchemar
- trreq German
- Italian: incubo
oppressive thing or person; a burden
- French: fardeau
- trreq German
See also
Extensive Definition
Incubus may refer to:
- Incubus (demon), a demon in male form that "lies upon" sleeping women; see also Succubus, a female demon which seduces men in dreams
- A women's running shoe made by Reebok
- A Dark Eldar warrior in the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000
- Incubi, a novel by Edward Lee
- A beer in the Belgian Tripel style made by Sly Fox Brewery in Pennsylvania, US
In film:
- Incubus
(film), a number of films with a similar titles:
- Incubus (1965 film), a film in Esperanto starring William Shatner
- The Incubus (1981 film), a 1981 horror film
- Incubus (2007 film), a Horror film starring Tara Reid
In music:
- Incubus (band), an American alternative rock band from California.
- Inkubus Sukkubus, a British Goth metal band
- Opprobrium (band), American death metal band from Louisiana which changed their name in order to avoid confusion
- "Incubus" (song), a 1984 song by Marillion on the album Fugazi
- "Incubus Succubus" (song), a song by Xmal Deutschland
See also
incubus in Danish: Incubus
incubus in German: Incubus
incubus in Spanish: Incubus
incubus in French: Incubus
incubus in Italian: Incubus
incubus in Dutch: Incubus
incubus in Norwegian: Incubus (andre
betydninger)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Baba Yaga, Dracula, Frankenstein, Lilith, Wolf-man, afreet, bad dream, bale, barghest, bogey, bogeyman, brown study, bugaboo, bugbear, burden, burdening, burthen, cacodemon, cargo, charge, charging, cumber, cumbrance, daeva, daydream, deadweight, demon, devil, drag, dream, dybbuk, evil spirit, fee-faw-fum,
fiend, fiend from hell,
freight, frightener, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, gyre, handicap, hellion, hobgoblin, holy terror,
horror, incumbency, jinni, jinniyeh, lading, lamia, load, loading, millstone, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, phantom, pipe dream, pressure, rakshasa, revenant, reverie, saddling, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, shedu, specter, succubus, superincumbency,
surcharge, taxing, terror, the undead, vampire, vision, werewolf, yogini