superbeing

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.

Noun

  1. 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.
    • 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...
    • When they undertook to describe in words the ineffable nature of the supreme reality, Erigena called it the superbeing which is the being of all things; Anselm, that than which nothing greater can be thought; Abelard, a...
    • 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...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English being English superbeing From super- + being.

Forms

superbeings

Hyponyms

angel archangel deity demigod demon divinity god hero mage magician mystic sorcerer superhero superhuman supervillain warlock witch wizard