antiheroics

English

Etymology

Blend of antihero +‎ heroics.

Noun

antiheroics pl (plural only)

  1. The actions (heroics) of an antihero.
    • 2022, James L. Conyers, Jr., Christel N. Temple, Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory:
      In a Black cultural mythology sense, exploring the prospect of antiheroics in Ali's life is a […]
    • 2022, Yael Levy, Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound, page 10:
      It seems, then, that in order to reveal the antiheroic mode in women characters, a different hermeneutic strategy is needed, as women's antiheroics (that is, antiheroinism) is manifested differently from that of men.
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