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DictionarysuccubusSeductive demon
noun

succubus

SUK-yuh-bus/ˈsʌkjʊbəs/

A female demon said to visit sleeping people sexually.

In the legend, a succubus visits sleeping people for sexual encounters.

Folkloric fully clothed adult female demon with subtle horns looming alluringly at a sleeping adult man's bedside; dark flowing robe fully covers body, dream atmosphere, no nudity or touching.
Etymology
sucLatinunder
+cubusLatinto lie down

“Lying under” supplies the sexual image behind a term for a prostitute, also applied to a female demon believed to have intercourse with sleeping men.

In context

KAI Manhwa Recap151:21
I walked up to the succubus.
They Mocked My Weak Summoner Class—Then I Pulled an SSS Class, SSS Divine Pet, and SSS Talents!

More examples

  • The old tale describes a succubus appearing in a sleeper's dreams.
  • The scholar studies accounts of succubi in medieval folklore.
  • The bitter narrator insults his lover by calling her a succubus.

Forms

succubus · succubi · succubuses

Similar words

demon
A broader term for an evil or harmful spirit.
fiend
An evil spirit, without the specific sexual role.