Incubus

/ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs/

Synonyms for "incubus" (98 found)

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More general

14 entries
daemondaimondemondevildisagreeable persondreamfiendmetaphorpsychological phenomenonsituationspiritsupernatural beingsymbolunpleasant person

More specific

6 entries
debt burdendream demondream hallucinationmoral anxietysex demonsleep paralysis experience

Collocations

5 entries
incubus demonincubus dreamincubus encounterincubus legendincubus myth

Inflections

2 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

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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.

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