Sekirov Dictionary

transhuman

adjective 3
noun 4
forms 3

adjective3

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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 . — 2009
•
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. — 2011
•
Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
- Subjectivity, as a paradoxically transhuman phenomenon of awareness renderred only in ecologies, is rendered into inscriptions and images even as no self is adequate to the report. — 2011

noun4

An enhanced human.
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An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
- In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.” — 2007
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An individual of a posthuman species.
- On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans. — 2008
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A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
- I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love. — 2002

forms

transhumans · more transhuman · most transhuman

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