extranormal
English
Etymology
extra- + normal
Adjective
extranormal (comparative more extranormal, superlative most extranormal)
- Outside or beyond what is normal.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 214:
- 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 like a wet sack.
- 2001, Linda Dégh, Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre, page 4:
- 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.
- 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths":
- Alex Danvers: The seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
- Supergirl: That's...
- Brainiac: Extranormal?
- Supergirl: I was gonna say impossible, but OK.
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