Added 8 October 2026
transhuman
adjective
adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about transhuman at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- More than human; superhuman.
- Related to transhumanism.
- Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
noun
- An enhanced human: An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species. An individual of a posthuman species.
- An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
- An individual of a posthuman species.
Origin
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).
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