overperson
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of German Übermensch, equivalent to over- + person.
Noun
[edit]overperson (plural overpeople)
- Synonym of overman
- Superman.
- 1997, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Philosophy History Sophistry, →ISBN, page 133:
- An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us.
- 2012, Dennis Carlson, Leaving Safe Harbors, →ISBN:
- Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others.
- 2015, Michael York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, →ISBN, page 123:
- And with the birth of the overperson at the great noontide of the future, humanity is to achieve an atheistic freedom expressed in the wish: “Dead are all the Gods: now do we desire the Superman to live.
- Supervisor.
- 1964, Samuel Pondipeddi Adinarayan, Social psychology: with special reference to Indian conditions:
- The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens.
- 1965, Elton B. McNeil, The nature of human conflict, page 69:
- In this process the individual accepts the belief in the entity of the nation as an overperson and the corresponding personification of the out-group nation as a causal agent ( Allport, 1933 ) .
- 2017, Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, →ISBN, page 334:
- Short of space, he built a little wine cellar in a linen closet.26 In December 1951 he wrote that the “overperson” was complaining about commotions after 11:00 at night, a time when “normal” people should be asleep.
- Superman.