postheroic

English

Etymology

post- +‎ heroic

Adjective

postheroic (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of classical heroes.
    • 2007 July 8, Roger Cohen, “Her Jewish State”, in New York Times‎:
      They like to convey the spirit of the underdog — that of Israel’s heroic beginnings — as if discomfited by the adornments of an increasingly moneyed, Americanized and postheroic society.

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