supermanian.
/ˌs(j)uːpəˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈmeɪniə/ Excessively aggressive behaviour, or a delusional obsession with power; extreme mania.With punning allusion to superman (superman n. 1), applied esp. in the early 20th cent. by critics and journalists to Nietzschean doctrine and ideology.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [noun] > act of hostility > hostile attack > disposition towards
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1905 Speaker 17 June 283/2 Mr. Kipling, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Wells..suffer from different forms of supermania. They all wish the world to be ruled by some kind of strong, stern man.
1915 tr. R. Colleye de Weerdt (title) Super-mania; an exposition of the origin, growth, and methods of German ‘world-power’ madness.
1922 Classical Weekly 16 Jan. 90/1 Students of Nietsche may be warned against the fascination of supermania.
1988 A. N. Bold MacDiarmid vi. 144 Like Pound..Grieve was subject to a Great Man syndrome, the result of his infatuation with Nietzschean supermania.
2006 F. Bridgham First World War as Clash of Cultures Introd. 16 The mainly avant-garde champions of the now notorious German thinker [sc. Nietzsche] were no match for press propaganda against ‘supermania’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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