adj
Meaning 1
More than human; superhuman.
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transhuman
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adj
Meaning 2
Related to transhumanism.
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adj
Meaning 3
Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
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- Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
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noun
Meaning 4
An enhanced human:
An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: strictly
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noun
Meaning 5
An enhanced human:
An individual of a posthuman species.
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Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
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).