transhuman

adjective

1. 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 .

2. 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.

3. Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.

   Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)

Where it comes from

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).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry transhuman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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