superhuman

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance

   Superhuman beings.

2. 2
   adj

   Beyond what is possible for a human being.

   How often, during her young life, had she looked upon the face of the dead!—it was now almost more familiar than the living. Again she marked the still repose, the calm, cold hue, the superhuman beauty, the look which is not of this world, here strongly contrasted by the troubled countenance of Lord Avonleigh.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

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

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