seminormal

Adjective

seminormal (not comparable)

1. Being a commutative reduced ring in which, whenever x, y satisfy x³=y², there is s with s²=x and s³=y.
2. Of a subgroup A of a group G, having a subgroup B such that AB = G, and for any proper subgroup C of B, AC is a proper subgroup of G.
3. (default logic) Having all its justifications entailing its conclusion.
4. Partially normal.
   • When it reaches this point, the only choice you have is to try to remember cruel things from your childhood and threaten or ridicule them. Ms. Behavior is aware that this might sound mean, but it is actually benevolent. Otherwise, your formerly seminormal friend will soon be playing with dolls and...1995, Meryl Cohn, “Codependent If You Want Me to Be”, in “Do What I Say”: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay & Lesbian Etiquette, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, part three...
   • Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531