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transhuman
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From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
adjective more transhuman · most transhuman
- More than human; superhuman. Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need neither sleep nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream .
- Related to transhumanism. I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.
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Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
Similar: posthuman
noun transhumans
- An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species. In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.”
- An individual of a posthuman species. On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.
- A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being. I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.
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