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English
Etymology
From extra- + normal.
Adjective
extranormal (comparative more extranormal, superlative most extranormal)
- Outside or beyond what is normal.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, 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 coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
- Supergirl: That's...
- Brainiac: Extranormal?
- Supergirl: I was gonna say impossible, but OK.