überman

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man of exceptional power over his natural abilities. rare
    — Haldane’s 1926 Man’s World shares this concern, speculating about a future in which evolution has been taken firmly in hand by an authoritarian State for whom white supremacy, practical eugenics, and prenatal sex determination are tripartite ingredients for the triumph of science. In the future Man’s World dreams up, a coterie of übermen takes over the world after a cataclysm that resembles the First World War, and they set out to craft a scientific society—regardless of the body count.

词形变化

übermen plural uberman alternative

词源

Partial calque of German Übermensch, from über + Mensch, literally “overman”. By surface analysis, über- + man.
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