Talk:transhuman

RFV discussion: August–September 2018

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transhuman

"A quality transcending humanity." Not clear to me how this can be a noun. Equinox ◑ 08:27, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Maybe if you put "the" in front 83.216.81.189 10:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I see; but then it's really the adjective, as in "the lazy are often criticised". Equinox ◑ 11:06, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I have added some cites, but as you say, it looks like an adjective being used like a noun. Kiwima (talk) 23:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, reopening because all those cites are clearly adjectival to me. What do others think? Equinox ◑ 21:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I am happy to accept that. I mostly passed it to push someone besides me into providing input. Kiwima (talk) 22:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

As the term is coordinated in the cites with human, sacred, numinous, and transcendent, one would expect each of these to also have an uncountable noun definition. Also such other terms as holy, profane, secular. In Wiktionary only transcendant has a noun sense, there deemed countable. I agree with Equinox and the editors of these entries that the kind of use in the citations seems adequately covered under the adjective PoS. DCDuring (talk) 02:49, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

RFV-resolved - removed as an adjective. Kiwima (talk) 20:47, 13 September 2018 (UTC)