Glossary Page

==Preface==
This is a Glossary Page, a page especially filled with terms and phrases which are frequently used on this Wikia.
Feel free to add terms or phrases, along with its definition, and make sure you define it as general as possible to avoid any future confusion. Bring any citations if necessary.
== Format (or Style) ==
==== Term or Phrase: ====
#1st definition.
#2nd definition.
#3rd definition.
#And so on and so forth.
(Optional) Note: (Insert any nuances or clarifications relating to how this term is used within Superpower Wiki)
(Optional) Example: (Insert any example regarding the usage of defined words or phrase).
Citation: (Insert any hyperlinks within a bracketed number. ex: [1], [2]).
==Glossary==
===A===
==== Absolute ====
# Perfect or complete or pure.
# Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
# Expressing finality with no implication of possible change.
# Not capable of being violated or infringed.
# Not limited by law.
# Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative.
Citation: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
==== Archetype ====
#A universally understood symbol, term, or pattern of behavior; a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.
#A model of a person, personality, or behavior.
#A personality type that's exemplified, especially the "greatest" such example.
#A literary term to express details.
Citation: [1]
==== Ascended ====
#To rise to a position of higher rank.
#To rise to a higher point, rank or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level.
Citation: [1], [2]
===C===
==== Conceptual ====
#Of or relating to concepts or mental conception.
#Conception:a. The ability to form or understand mental concepts and abstractions. b. Something conceived in the mind; a concept, plan, design, idea, or thought.
Citation: [1]
==== Cosmic ====
#Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast.
#Immeasurably extended in space or time; vast.
#Of, from, or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe;
#Pertaining to the cosmos, the vast extraterrestrial regions of the universe.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Construct ====
#To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
#To put together substances or parts, esp systematically, in order to make or build (a building, bridge, etc.); assemble.
#Something formulated or built systematically.
Citation: [1]
==== Creation ====
# The act of creating.
# The act of making, inventing, or producing
# Something that is created.
Citation: [1, 2, 3]
===D===
==== Destruction ====
#The act or process of destroying.
#The condition of being destroyed.
#The cause or means of destroying.
Citation: [1]
===E===
====Embodiment ====
#The act of embodying or the state of being embodied.
#Something or someone that embodies a spirit, principle, etc.; incarnation.
#Something embodied.
Citation: [1]
====Empathy ====
#Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.
#The power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings.
#The power of entering into another’s personality and imaginatively experiencing his feelings.
Citation: [1]
====Empowerment (from Empower) ====
#To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
#To equip or supply with an ability; enable.
Citation: [1]
====Energy====
#the capacity for vigorous activity.
#the capacity to do work.
#the property of a system that diminishes when the system does work on any other system, by an amount equal to the work so done.
NOTE: Energy can be expended to exert a force, but energy can also create heat or light; it can manipulate states of matter and pressure. Energy can also be stored, consumed, transported, or extracted from the environment. Many things in fiction that are named as a force are actually an energy. Care should be taken on this site to classify energies correctly even when they are missed named in the works where they were conceived.
Citation: [1], [2]
====Enhancement (from Enhance) ====
#To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
#To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features.
Citation: [1]
===F===
==== Force ====
# A strong influence, or a person with strong influence.
# Any of the natural influences (such as electromagnetism, gravity, the strong force, and the weak force) that exist especially between particles and determine the structure of the universe.
# An agency or influence that if applied to a free body results chiefly in an acceleration of the body and sometimes in elastic deformation and other effects.
Note: A force is a push, pull, or twist. That is all. In fiction, many things named as being a force are actually an energy. Even the Force, as described by Obi Wan Kenobi, is actually an energy.
Citation: [1] , [2]
===G===
==== Generation (from Generate) ====
#The act or process of generating; origination, production, or procreation. (Can be out of something or out of nothing, the latter being more powerful.)
#The act or process of bringing into being.
Citation: [1]
==== Greater (from Great) ====
#Remarkable or outstanding in magnitude, degree, or extent.
#Of outstanding significance or importance.
#Chief or principal.
Citation: [1], [2]
===I===
==== Inducement (from Induce) ====
#To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion.
#To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause.
#To infer by inductive reasoning.
#Something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive.
#The act or process of inducing.
Citation: [1] , [2]
===L===
==== Life-Energy/Life-Force ====
#A hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought to cause the evolution and development of organisms.
Citation: [1]
==== Lesser ====
#Used to describe something that is not as great in size, amount, or importance as something else.
Citation: [1]
===M===
==== Manipulation (from Manipulate) ====
#Ability to move, alter, control, lift, bend, break, agitate, vibrate, spin, influence, operate, impact or create something by any means.
Note: creation in this situation is different from generating/creating something out of thin air, but rather stems from the manipulation of the thing in question.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Mastery ====
#The status of master or ruler; control
#Full command or understanding of a subject.
#Outstanding skill; expertise.
#Ability to create, destroy, move, alter, control, lift, bend, break, agitate, vibrate, spin, influence, operate, or impact something by any (mentally/physically) means.
Citation: [1], [2], [3]
==== Mental ====
#Of or relating to the mind; intellectual/mental/psionic/psychic powers/abilities.
#Executed or performed by the mind; existing in the mind.
Citation: [1]
==== Meta- (as a prefix) ====
# A prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model.
# A prefix added to the name of a subject and designating another subject that analyzes the original one but at a more abstract, higher level.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Metaphysics/Metaphysical ====
#Of or relating to metaphysics.
#The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact, and value.
#Concern on attempts to clarify the fundamental notions by which people understand the world.3.1 Being, existence and reality.3.2 Empirical and conceptual objects.3.2.1 Objects and their properties.3.3 Cosmology and cosmogony.3.4 Determinism and free will.3.5 Identity and change.3.6 Mind and matter.3.7 Necessity and possibility.3.8 Religion and spirituality.3.9 Space and time.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Mimicry ====
#The act, practice, or art of mimicking.
#The act or art of copying or imitating closely; mimicking.
#To copy or imitate closely.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Mystic ====
#A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.
#A person who tries to communicate directly with God or other forces controlling the universe.
#Something that involves spiritual powers and influences that most people do not understand. 
Note: Mystic powers and abilities are in fact divine and/or spiritual powers employed by mortals. Mystic powers may be granted by a divine or spiritual sponsor, or wielded through a mystic object.
Citation: [1], [2], [3]
==== Mythic ====
#Relating to or resembling a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
#Someone or something that exists only in myths & legends and is therefore imaginary. 
#Existing only in stories; Imaginary and not real.
Note: "Mythic" describes powers, abilities, physiologies, and archetypes that are based in myth and legend. It is inclusive of both the natural and the supernatural.
Citation: [1], [2], [3], [4]
===O===
==== Omnipotent ====
# Having unlimited power and able to do anything.
# Having the power to do anything.
Citation: [1]
==== Omni- (as a prefix) ====
# All, Everywhere (from Latin)
Citation: [1]
===P===
==== Pataphysical ====
# The study of what lies beyond metaphysics; the philosophy of the absurd.
# The French absurdist concept of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics, intended as a parody of the methods and theories of modern science and often expressed in nonsensical language.
# Intricate and whimsical nonsense intended as a parody of science.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Physical ====
#Of or relating to the body, as distinguished from the mind or spirit.
#Of or relating to matter and energy or the sciences dealing with them, especially physics.
#Involving or requiring bodily contact.
#Of, relating to, or resembling material things or natural.
Citation: [1]
==== Physiology ====
#The functions of any given organism or being.
#The ability or traits of any given organism or being.
Citation: [1]
==== Plane ====
#A level of development, existence, or achievement.
#A level of existence, performance, attainment, etc.
#A level of existence or development.
#An emergent state, level or region of reality.
Citation: [1], [2]
===Q===
==== Quintessence ====
#The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.
Citation: [1]
===R===
==== Restoration ====
#The act of restoring or state of being restored, as to a former or original condition, place, etc.
#The replacement or giving back of something lost, stolen, etc.
#Something restored, replaced or reconstructed.
Citation: [1]
===S===
==== Spatial ====
#Relating to, occupying, or having the character of space.
#Of or relating to a facility in perceiving relations (as of objects) in space.
Citation: [1]
==== Spiritual ====
#Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not tangible or material.
#Of, concerned with, or affecting the soul.
#Relating to or having the nature of spirits or a spirit; supernatural.
Citation: [1]
==== Supernatural ====
# Of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural laws 
# Characteristic of or caused by or as if by a god; miraculous.
# Of, involving, or ascribed to occult beings.
# Exceeding the ordinary; abnormal.
# Caused by forces that cannot be explained by science.
# (Of something’s cause or existence) not able to be explained by the laws of science.
Note: Supernatural is used on this site to describe things that are beyond the possibilities of known science. It is part of our Universal Power Tiering as the level above Enhanced and is inclusive of the levels above it (Transcendent or Absolute).
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Superpower ====
#A specialized ability/trait/skill that is not readily accessible, conceivable, attainable, or known by the standard "normal" non-powered public.
#An unnatural trait that is given scientific, quasi-scientific, pseudo-scientific or outright supernatural explanations by writers, which are normally impossible to achieve with current technology and physical laws.
#Power greater in scope or magnitude than that which is considered natural or has previously existed.
Citation: [1]
===T===
==== Temporal ====
#Of or pertaining to time.
#Pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys.
#Enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (opposed to eternal).
Citation: [1]
==== Trait ====
# A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior.
# A characteristic, esp. of a personality.
# A distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature.
Citation: [1], [2]
==== Transcendent ====
# Greater, better, more important, or going past or above all others
# Exceeding usual limits, in a way of surpassing them.
# Extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience.
# Being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge.
Note: Transcendent is used in this site's Universal Power Tiering as the level above Supernatural for archetypes and physiologies, and for powers which do not have an Absolute power level. 
Citation: [1], [2]
=== U ===
==== Ultimate ====
* Furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme.
* Being the last or concluding element of a series.
* The finest or most superior quality of its kind.
Citation: [1, 2, 3]
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