Word.ws English Dictionary

transhumans

transhumans is the plural of transhuman.

Meaning of transhuman

Noun

transhuman (countable and uncountable, plural transhumans)

  1. (strictly) An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
    • In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.”2007, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Charles A. Anderson, Michael J. Sleasman, Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis), →ISBN
  2. (broadly) An individual of a posthuman species.
    • On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.2008, Christopher Ejsmond, Reflections on Life, →ISBN, page 100
  3. A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
    • I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.2002, Vernor Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, →ISBN

See all 6 meanings of transhuman

Questions about transhumans

What is transhumans the plural of?
Transhumans is the plural of transhuman.

Words near transhumans in the dictionary

  1. transhumanity
  2. transhumanize
  3. transhumanized
  4. transhumanizes
  5. transhumanizing
  6. transhumans
  7. transhumant
  8. transhumants
  9. transhume
  10. transhumed
  11. transhumeral

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transhumans (page history and authors); transhuman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “transhumans.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transhumans. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.