Meaning

More than human; superhuman..

Definitions by Sense

1. More than human; superhuman.
2. Related to transhumanism.
3. Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
4. (countable) An enhanced human:
5. A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.

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)

This "other world" is transcendent because the experience of the sacred—an encounter with a reality transcending immanent life—gives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.

Thus, regardless of whether one prefers to replace the father symbol with other human symbols like mother and maternal—or with transhuman and transsexual symbols like first/last reality—none of these images or symbols are really integral to the message of the Gospels.

Word Forms

• more transhuman
• most transhuman
• transhumans

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Use transhuman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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