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preterhuman

preterhuman adjective: more than human; superhuman.

Adjective

preterhuman (comparative more preterhuman, superlative most preterhuman)

  1. More than human; superhuman.
    • And there is something pathetic in the preterhuman solicitude and preterhuman patience with which the Allies went on, week after week, and month after month, laboriously striving to persuade the Serbs, the Greeks, and the Roumanians to assent to territorial sacrifices in order to satisfy Bulgaria's...1915 November, E.J. Dillon, “The Balkan Imbroglio”, in W.L. Courtney, editor, The Fortnightly Review, volume 97, page 911
    • Prominent among these “preterhuman beings”, not unnaturally, were Tuitit Bey and Serapis, as well as the – as yet unannounced – Morya and Koot Hoomi.2011, David Conway, Magic Without Mirrors: The Making of a Magician, page 129

Forms of preterhuman

comparativemore preterhuman
superlativemost preterhuman

Origin of preterhuman

From preter- + human.

Questions about preterhuman

What does preterhuman mean?
Preterhuman means more than human; superhuman.
What part of speech is preterhuman?
Preterhuman is an adjective.

Words near preterhuman in the dictionary

  1. pretergeneration
  2. pretergenerations
  3. pretergite
  4. pretergites
  5. pretergression
  6. preterhuman
  7. preterient
  8. preterimperfect
  9. preterimperfects
  10. preterintentional
  11. preterintentionality

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