transhumanist

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ human +‎ -ist, after transhumanism.

Noun

transhumanist (plural transhumanists)

  1. An advocate of transhumanism. [from 20th c.]
    • 2017 April 18, Meghan O'Gieblyn, “God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Many transhumanists such as [Ray] Kurzweil contend that they are carrying on the legacy of the Enlightenment – that theirs is a philosophy grounded in reason and empiricism, even if they do lapse occasionally into metaphysical language about “transcendence” and “eternal life”.
    • 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 44:
      [Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news.

Adjective

transhumanist (comparative more transhumanist, superlative most transhumanist)

  1. Relating to transhumanism.
    • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
      It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult.
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