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Incubus

//ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
  2. 2
    a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women wordnet
  3. 3
    A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.

    "it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] ."

  4. 4
    someone who depresses or worries others wordnet
  5. 5
    Any oppressive thing or person; a burden. broadly

    "Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition."

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  1. 6
    a situation resembling a terrifying dream wordnet
  2. 7
    One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.

Etymology

From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubō (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubō (“to lie upon, to hatch”, from in- (“on”) + cubō (“to lie down”)).

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