Meaning of superbeing | Babel Free

Definitions

A human being or other entity with certain abilities and other attributes that beyond those of a normal or real being of the same kind.

Examples

“The detective’s appeal to the Spaniard probably lay⟳ in the fact that, like⟳ Don Juan, he was a superbeing. This is doubtless, too, the explanation of his attraction for the rest⟳ of humanity; but the interesting feature of his Spanish vogue is that in fiction and in drama he was elaborated, if not improved, upon.”

“When they undertook to describe⟳ in words the ineffable nature of the supreme reality, Erigena called it the superbeing which is the being of all things; Anselm, that than which nothing greater can be thought; Abelard, a trinity of power, wisdom, and goodness; Bernard, the bridegroom of the soul; Isaac, that which exists through, of, and in itself.”

“Possibly such events were exceptional, but the activities of shamans among the masses of the people in early medieval times probably owe⟳ the little attention they have⟳ received to the failure of documentation. What we get⟳ in the best literature is an emphasis on the refined offshoots of shamans—the transcendent superbeings (hsien) of Taoism.”

“Until the 1960s and 1970s when movie stars, comic-book superbeings, and other mythic figures threatened to crowd out more accessible models of behavior and understanding, the lawyer-hero and the writer-hero occupied an important place⟳ in the spectrum of postmartial heroism.”

“It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have⟳ psi powers and come⟳ together as a hive mind⟳, thus creating a gestalt super-being.”

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