超人类主义有时也被称为超人文主义或超人主义，过渡人文主义是一个经常被用来和人类增强类似的术语。它现在是一个国际性的文化智力运动，支持使用科学技术来增强 精神、体力、能力和资质，并用来克服人类状态不需要或不必要的方面，比如残疾、疾病、痛苦、老化和偶然死亡。

超人类主义思考者研究发展和使用人类增强技术以及其他以此目的的新兴技术可能性和后果。此外，这些强大的新技术带来的危险和好处，以及对人类生活状态的大改变，也是超人类主义运动的关心方向。

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of using such technologies. The most common thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.