Superbeing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈs(j)uːpəˈbiːɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Superbeing is a noun meaning A human being or other entity with certain abilities and other attributes that beyond those of a normal or real being of the same kind.
Meaning
A human being or other entity with certain abilities and other attributes that beyond those of a normal or real being of the same kind.
Example Sentences
It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.
Until the 1960s and 1970s when movie stars, comic-book superbeings, and other mythic figures threatened to crowd out more accessible models of behavior and understanding, the lawyer-hero and the writer-hero occupied an important place in the spectrum of postmartial heroism.
The detective’s appeal to the Spaniard probably lay in the fact that, like Don Juan, he was a superbeing. This is doubtless, too, the explanation of his attraction for the rest of humanity; but the interesting feature of his Spanish vogue is that in fiction and in drama he was elaborated, if not improved, upon.
Possibly such events were exceptional, but the activities of shamans among the masses of the people in early medieval times probably owe the little attention they have received to the failure of documentation. What we get in the best literature is an emphasis on the refined offshoots of shamans—the transcendent superbeings (hsien) of Taoism.
Word Forms
- superbeings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superhuman, transhuman, superperson, superpersonality, superhumanity, superhumanness.
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