supercharacter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A superhero or supervillain.
    — The Lensmen are shown, however, as a superior race, with advanced mental and physical powers, and there are few instances when mere humans appear in the stories or comment on these supercharacters.
  2. An amalgamation of characters that respond to the same selective pressure.
    — The combination of characters contributing to the supercharacter need not be logically or genetically related.
  3. A single entity that represents multiple irreducible characters but is treated as a single character in the algebraic theory of Carlos André.
    — The supercharacter analog of the A.A.
  4. A group of characters in a play, movie, or story, that act together as a single combined entity.
    — His separate existence, indeed, is now superfluous: the conflict over, his better qualities are incorporated in the lover who survives, the more mature stage of the supercharacter Palamon-Arcite-Emetreus-Lygurge.
  5. Something that pervades a story as a common theme or presence, transcending the level of individual characters.
    — As one critic has astutely noted, ideas in Huxley's novels assume the role of "supercharacters."

词形变化

supercharacters plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der.
Latin charactērder.
Old French caracterebor.
Middle English caracter
English character
English supercharacter
From super- + character.
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