posthuman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Succeeding human beings as presently defined; more than, or beyond, what is human.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: transhuman (sometimes synonymous)"
- "posthuman intelligence"
- "Despite his title, Dr. [Francis] Fukuyama has no taste for a rerun of history and believes a posthuman future is one to avoid."
- "You could imagine this metropolis as an exemplary post-human city-state, run on A.I.—a twenty-first-century Athens—or as a gated community for the élite, a fortress against the coming chaos."
- "The big banal shed full of humming and twinkling machines is arguably the first real major post-human building type, an architecture built not for us but for the computing power we are coding and training (and which will be coding itself) to outsmart, even supplant us."
- "But there may be strong pressure to go the other way — to surrender, in the name of autonomy and equity and anti-speciesism, to a future where humans and bots are treated interchangeably, where simulated relationships are assumed to be equal to real ones if enough people prefer them, and where the post-human ambitions of some technologists are taken up by the would-be spokesmen for the masses."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more posthuman (comparative)
most posthuman (superlative)
post-human (alternative)
posthumans (plural)