transhuman
adjective, noun
transhuman is an adjective meaning “More than human; superhuman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-H-U-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does transhuman mean?
adjective
- 1
More than human; superhuman.
- 2
Related to transhumanism.
- 3
Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
noun
- 1
An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
- 2
An individual of a posthuman species.
- 3
A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of transhuman
- more transhuman comparative
- most transhuman superlative
- transhumans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is transhuman?
Transhuman appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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).
Where does transhuman come from?
From 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).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).