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postheroic en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + heroic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) After the decline of classical heroes.
    • They like to convey the spirit of the underdog — that of Israel’s heroic beginnings — as if discomfited by the adornments of an increasingly moneyed, Americanized and postheroic society. 2007 July 8, Roger Cohen, “Her Jewish State”, in New York Times: