extranormal

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adjective

Outside or beyond what is normal.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveextranormal (comparative more extranormal, superlative most extranormal)

comparative more extranormal · superlative most extranormal

  1. Outside or beyond what is normal.

    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.

    2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths"
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    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.

    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

Origin

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APA

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“extranormal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extranormal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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