overperson
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us."
- "Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others."
- "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."
- "The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens."
- "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 ) ."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over