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posthumanism

noun

posthumanism is spelled P-O-S-T-H-U-M-A-N-I-S-M: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, posthumanism means “Any of various schools of thought that oppose the earlier humanism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of posthumanism is posthumanisms.

How many letters and syllables are in posthumanism?

Letters12: P-O-S-T-H-U-M-A-N-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is posthumanism?

Posthumanism appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of posthumanism

  • posthumanisms plural
  • post-humanism

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does posthumanism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various schools of thought that oppose the earlier humanism.

  2. 2

    Transhumanism or a similar philosophy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does posthumanism come from?

From post- + humanism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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