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transhuman

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[trans-hyoo-muhn] / ˌtrænsˈhju mən /

adjective

  1. transcending the boundaries of human ability or existence, through evolutionary, technological, or spiritual means; superhuman.


noun

transhumans plural
  1. an individual or species that has transcended human ability or existence, through evolutionary, technological, or spiritual means.

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But they recognize obligations only to one another — if that — and they can be hurt only by their own transhuman kind.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Except when it comes time for their talk, Bethany tells her parents she’s transhuman and that she wants to “live forever as information.”

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2019

The word transhuman first appeared not in a work of science or technology but in Henry Francis Carey’s 1814 translation of Dante’s Paradiso, the final book of the Divine Comedy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017

Perhaps these prophecies had pointed to the future achievements of humanity all along, our ability to harness technology to become transhuman.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017

This is aptly called "chaos" which we might fancifully suppose the leavings, "the fragments that were left," of the semicircular wall now visible, thrown up by transhuman builders, insurmountable barrier between heaven and earth.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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