The ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5).
Also called superman, overman
Origin
German, literally 'superhuman person'.
Definition of Übermensch in US English:
Übermensch
nounˈYbər-
The ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–85).