transhuman

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.

Origin

• 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).