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superheroism

noun

Etymology

From superhero + -ism.

  1. derived from *ser-✻
  2. derived from ἥρως
  3. derived from hērōs
  4. derived from heroes
  5. inherited from heroes
  6. prefixed as superhero — “super + hero”
  7. suffixed as superheroism — “superhero + ism”

Definitions

  1. The state of being a superhero.

    • But it isn’t her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; it’s her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who lives in her world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for superheroism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA