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Definition of Superhuman
1. Adjective. Above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance. "Soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery"
Definition of Superhuman
1. a. Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
Definition of Superhuman
1. Adjective. Beyond what is possible for a human being. ¹
2. Noun. A human being with remarkable abilities. ¹
3. Noun. A fictional human being with superpowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superhuman
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superhuman
Literary usage of Superhuman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"They are written in the flowing and elevated style which the * The superhuman
Origin of the Bible In/erred from Itself. By HENRY ROGERS, author of "The ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"HENRY ROGERS' LECTURES ox THIS superhuman ORIGIN or THE BIBLE* inferred from
itself are written with the spirit which characterizes all his writings in ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams
of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1902)
"... the harmony, the clearness, the minute neatness of the painting, which remains
superhuman above suffering and fright. Among the illustrations reproduced ..."
5. The Validity of the Religious Experience: A Preliminary Study in the by George Alexander Barrow (1917)
"It is probably to some animistic religions that reference is sometimes made in
the statement that some tribes have no conception of superhuman powers in the ..."
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