posthuman

English

Alternative forms

• post-human

Etymology

From post- +‎ human.

Adjective

posthuman (comparative more posthuman, superlative most posthuman)

1. Succeeding human beings as presently defined; more than, or beyond, what is human.

   Antonym: prehuman

   Near-synonym: transhuman (sometimes synonymous)

   posthuman intelligence

   • 2002 April 2, Nicholas Wade, “A Dim View of a ‘Posthuman Future’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Despite his title, Dr. Fukuyama has no taste for a rerun of history and believes a posthuman future is one to avoid.

   • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎^[2]:

     You could imagine this metropolis as an exemplary post-human city-state, run on A.I.—a twenty-first-century Athens—or as a gated community for the élite, a fortress against the coming chaos.

Translations

succeeding human being who is beyond what is human

• German: posthuman, nachmenschlich
• Persian: پساانسان (pasâensân)
• Ukrainian: постлюдський (postljudsʹkyj)

Noun

posthuman (plural posthumans)

1. A supposed being of this kind.

   Antonym: prehuman

   Near-synonym: transhuman (sometimes synonymous)

   • 2008 August 26, John Tierney, quoting Vernor Vinge, “Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Well, Dr. Vinge said, it’s possible that artificial post-humans would use us the way we’ve used oxen and donkeys.

Related terms

• infrahuman
• inhuman
• nonhuman
• posthumanism
• posthumanity
• subhuman
• superhuman
• suprahuman
• ultrahuman
• unhuman

 

Translations

a being that is posthuman

• Persian: پساانسان (pasâensân)
• Ukrainian: постлюдина f (postljudyna)