Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- More than human; superhuman.
Wiktionary
- n. A human who recognizes and embraces the coming posthuman condition
- adj. More than human; superhuman
- adj. Related to transhumanism
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare More than human; superhuman.
Etymologies
- trans- (“across, beyond”) + “human” (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Any "transhuman" implementation will have to include or simulate our emotional components.”
“I imagine that the existence Cavil desires, eliminating the biological component that also results in us being emotional as well as rational beings, might well end up being "sub-human" rather than "transhuman", however enhanced our eyesight might be.”
“When everyone has attained at least the level of "transhuman", they'll understand the lack of necessity of God to explain the world aside from maybe Aquinas's "first cause" explanation that requires no religion by itself.”
“I intend to recapture the term "transhuman" from the cyborgs are spiritual emigres, which necessarily highlights the temporal dimension in transmodernist thinking.”
“In DX: HR we're just at the start of that revolution, in a time where the 'transhuman' is emerging - a more mechanical augmentation system which enhances human capabilities in very unsubtle ways.”
“Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedia Dictionary defined "transhuman" as meaning "surpassing; transcending; beyond".”
“Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defined "transhuman" as meaning”
“But atheists and religious alike use technology in a 'transhuman' approach.”
“Part of the reason I got thinking about this was, strangely, Michael Jackson - someone wrote an article about how he could be, through his (relatively) immense amount of physical reconstruction, be considered the first "transhuman": someone for whom the mortal flesh is simply another canvas of expression.”
“I have no idea what rights a civil union like the ones which would be possible below would have, nor do I have any idea what kind of transhuman universe would require so complex a system.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘transhuman’.
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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