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overperson en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Übermensch, equivalent to over- + person.

Meanings

1. Synonym of overman. ▸ Superman.
   • Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others. 2012, Dennis Carlson, Leaving Safe Harbors, →ISBN:
   • And with the birth of the overperson at the great noontide of the future, humanity is to achieve an atheistic freedom expressed in the wish: “Dead are all the Gods: now do we desire the Superman to live. 2015, Michael York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, →ISBN, page 123:
   • An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us. 1997, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Philosophy History Sophistry, →ISBN, page 133:
2. Synonym of overman. ▸ Supervisor.
   • The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens. 1964, Samuel Pondipeddi Adinarayan, Social psychology: with special reference to Indian conditions:
   • In this process the individual accepts the belief in the entity of the nation as an overperson and the corresponding personification of the out-group nation as a causal agent ( Allport, 1933 ) . 1965, Elton B. McNeil, The nature of human conflict, page 69:
   • Short of space, he built a little wine cellar in a linen closet.26 In December 1951 he wrote that the “overperson” was complaining about commotions after 11:00 at night, a time when “normal” people should be asleep. 2017, Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, →ISBN, page 334:

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