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superhuman

adj

Etymology

From Medieval Latin superhūmānus. By surface analysis, super- + human.

  1. borrowed from superhūmānus

Definitions

  1. Beyond what is possible for a human being.

    • I could have flown at him, shame upon me! The woman had confounded and almost destroyed my moral sense, as she was bound to confound all who looked upon her superhuman loveliness.

  2. A human with remarkable abilities or superpowers.

    • Here is a man who, during a potentially testy moment of promotion, retained the clarity of thought to reach deep down into himself, locate the purest possible version of his personality and say: “Fuck you.” What a superhuman he is.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at superhuman. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at superhuman. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at superhuman

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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