superman.
An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an übermensch; (loosely), a man of extraordinary powers.
Meaning & usage
An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an übermensch; (loosely), a man of extraordinary powers.
Nietzsche wrote of the coming of the superman.
Someone likened to the comics character Superman; a man of seemingly superhuman powers.
Where this word comes from
A calque of German Übermensch; super- + man. The German word was introduced by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) in his work Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883), and rendered in English as superman by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) in the play Man and Superman (1903) and by Thomas Common (1850–1919) in his 1909 translation of Nietzsche’s work. The “person of extraordinary powers” sense was reinforced by the DC Comics’ character Superman, who first appeared in Action Comics #1 dated June 1938.
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