abhumanadj.n.
/abˈhjuːmən/, /əbˈhjuːmən/, U.S. /æbˈ(h)jumən/, /əbˈ(h)jumən/ A. adj.
Having some human characteristics, but others which are supernatural, alien, or monstrous; partially human.
ΚΠ
1910 W. H. Hodgson in Idler Feb. 520 I took the opportunity to warn them that this was no piece of silly mumming on my part; but done with a definite intention of erecting a barrier between us and any ab-human thing that the night might show to us.
1945 Rev. Eng. Stud. 21 302 One could say that the romantic critics expect the figures in Paradise Lost to behave like human beings as we know them, whereas in fact they are either superhuman or abhuman.
2004 C. Valier Crime & Punishment in Contemp. Culture vi. 121 The monstrous bodies of today retain a certain familiarity, abhuman rather than inhuman.
B. n.
An abhuman creature or being. Also with the: that which is abhuman.
ΚΠ
1910 W. H. Hodgson in Idler Jan. 413 I had for a moment that feeling of spiritual sickness..which is felt only upon the too near approach of the ab-human.
1994 Interzone Nov. 33/1 Every ab-human has its limitations. A werewolf cannot resist the Moon, a vampire cannot face the Sun.
2004 D. Punter & G. Byron Gothic 41 The abhuman may be a body that retains traces of human identity but has become or is in the process of becoming something quite different.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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