Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transhumanist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English

Syllables: tran-shu-man-ist
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An advocate of transhumanism.

adj

Relating to transhumanism.

Example Sentences

"Many transhumanists such as [Ray] Kurzweil contend that they are carrying on the legacy of the Enlightenment – that theirs is a philosophy grounded in reason and empiricism, even if they do lapse occasionally into metaphysical language about “transcendence” and “eternal life”."
"[Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news."
"It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult."

Etymology

From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: trans
Suffix: human

Inflected Forms

transhumanists (plural) more transhumanist (comparative) most transhumanist (superlative)

Questions

What does transhumanist mean?: An advocate of transhumanism.
Where does transhumanist come from?: From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.

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