Übermensch

[ y-buhr-mensh ]

noun

, German.

, plural Ü·ber·mensch·en [y, -b, uh, r, men-sh, uh, n].

1. superman ( def 2 ).

Übermensch

/ ˈyːbərˌmɛnʃ /

noun

1. (esp in the writings of Nietzsche) the German word for superman

Word History and Origins

Origin of Übermensch¹

literally: over-man

Example Sentences

To an even greater extent than the neoliberal economists, she fashioned an ideology that is simply the worst of the Marxist-Leninism she escaped stood on its head, with a heroic Übermensch substituting for the proletarian masses.

From Salon

In fact, Mussolini, who, like Hitler, read Nietzsche, the philosopher of the Übermensch and all that, and took away from it that if somebody is weak and they're on a cliff, you should just push them because they're useless to society.

From Salon

Some even proclaim that these creatures of big tech are the next step in evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Übermensch.”

From Scientific American

On the other hand, if he were really the Ubermensch he pretends to be and he really was able to rid the country of corruption and destroy his enemies, then why hasn't he done so—eight years later?

From Salon

The anti-democratic philosopher par excellence, Nietzsche believed that humanity can only take the next evolutionary leap if a strong leader—the so-called übermensch, or “overman”—exerts his will over the rudderless masses.

From Slate