superman

Definitions


[ˈsuːpəman], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a US cartoon, TV, and film character having great strength, the ability to fly, and other extraordinary powers

- the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, as described by Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5)


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Origin:
late 19th century (in superman): from super- ‘exceptional’ + man, coined in imitation of German Übermensch (used by Nietzsche)




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