transhumanist
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.
Noun
[edit]transhumanist (plural transhumanists)
- An advocate of transhumanism. [from 20th c.]
- 2017 April 18, Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Guardian:
- Many transhumanists such as 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”.
Adjective
[edit]transhumanist (comparative more transhumanist, superlative most transhumanist)
- 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.