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Definition of "enhancive" []

  • That tends or serves to enhance, heighten, or intensify; that imparts added force: as, an enhancive sentence, or expression. Also enhansive.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "enhancive" in a sentence
  • "The automobile may thus be understood as an enhancive extension of the driver's own body, i.e., the driver-automobile "coupled system" yields a kind of cybernetic organism, albeit one that pushes to the limit our pre-theoretic intuitions about where the individual ends and the environment begins."
  • "Fukuyama, for example, endorses technologies designed for world-engineering purposes but rejects those aimed at person-engineering - in particular, those technologies of an enhancive nature."
  • "Although Walker explicates the latter in terms of "[creating] persons who are smarter and more virtuous than we are," one could interpret person-engineering as the process of modifying the human organism using technologies that are classifiable as either enhancive or therapeutic (although I take this binarism to be vague in nontrivial ways)."