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superman
[ soo-per-man ]
noun
- a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- an ideal superior being conceived by Nietzsche who attains happiness, dominance, and creativity.
- a superior being conceived as the product of human evolution.
- one who prevails by virtue of being a ruthless egoist of superior strength, cunning, and force of will.
superman
/ ˈːəˌæ /
noun
- (in the philosophy of Nietzsche) an ideal man who through integrity and creativity would rise above good and evil and who represents the goal of human evolution
- any man of apparently superhuman powers
Superman
1- A seemingly immortal, superhuman comic-strip character created in the late 1930s, who hides his powers beneath the persona of Clark Kent, a mild-mannered newspaper reporter. Only when there is a threat of danger — often to his fellow reporter and secret love, Lois Lane — does Clark transform himself into the caped hero with x-ray vision.
Superman
2- An ideal of humanity found in Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche . The Superman, or Overman (the German is ÜԲ ), is the single goal of all human striving, for which people must be willing to sacrifice all. It is doubtful that Nietzsche thought of the Overman as an individual person.
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Example Sentences
I cannot entirely fault those who are still looking for a hero or a superman who cuts through the noise and nonsense.
Maybe he can and thus satisfy his fans that he is “superman.”
I anticipate that the most heroic seeming of these photos will be on the jumbo screens at the convention so the mythology of Trump the superman will again be on national TV.
They’re telling us that this political superman has successfully “weaponized” the justice system.
He's 77 years old and doesn't take care of his health, probably because thinks doing that would be doing an admission that he's not the genetic superman he so often claims to be.
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