transhuman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
More than human; superhuman.
adj
adj
Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
Example Sentences
- "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 ."
- "A template for those who will become transhuman."
- "I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous."
- "The transhuman ideal is based upon a reconception of evolution, a perfecting and transcending of the human race through the next step in progress: not through biological mutation but through science and technology."
- "In a study of transhumanists and video games, fully twothirds of the participants claimed that video games incline players toward a transhuman sense of self."
- "Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)"
Etymology
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).
Origin
- Source language: French