transhuman
An enhanced humanAn enhanced human: An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
» Maybe hope for a better tomorrow, as in the document "Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies."
Meaning
3 sensesAn enhanced human:
(countable, uncountable)An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)An individual of a posthuman species.
(countable, uncountable)A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
Examples
1 sentencesMaybe hope for a better tomorrow, as in the document "Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies."
Origin
From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard deFrom 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).
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Forms
plural: transhumans| Singular | transhuman |
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Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable