higher being

English

Noun

higher being (plural higher beings)

1. A nonhuman lifeform believed to have power over human life, such as the Christian God.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Klencory:

     Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the "lost crypts of beings of light". These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic "machine devils."

Synonyms

• cosmocrat
• god
• higher power

Translations

non-human life form believed to have power over human life

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神祇 (zh) (shénqí)

• Finnish: korkeampi voima
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вы́сшее существо́ n (výsšeje suščestvó)
• Spanish: ser superior m