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extranormal

extranormal adjective: outside or beyond what is normal.

Adjective

extranormal (comparative more extranormal, superlative most extranormal)

  1. Outside or beyond what is normal.
    • The words "Coroner's Inquest" arrived in his mind, and disturbed it greatly. Those damned doctors would be peeking at that old corpse, exercising their ingenuity to explain that a thump on the skull had jerked life out of it. An extra-normal thump, too; damme, he had seen her hurtle through the air...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 214
    • It seems that ghosts and legendary encounters in general thrive under the protection of law because their extranormal statements and implications require proof and provoke the less convincing counterproof.2001, Linda Dégh, Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre, page 4

Forms of extranormal

comparativemore extranormal
superlativemost extranormal

Origin of extranormal

From extra- + normal.

Questions about extranormal

What does extranormal mean?
Extranormal means outside or beyond what is normal.
What part of speech is extranormal?
Extranormal is an adjective.

Words near extranormal in the dictionary

  1. extranidal
  2. extranigral
  3. extranodal
  4. extranodular
  5. extranoematic
  6. extranormal
  7. extranotular
  8. extranuclear
  9. extranuclearly
  10. extranucleolar
  11. extranucleosomal

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