Meanings
- not comparableIn excess of the normal; above the normal.
The film is liberal and nonjudgemental and will annoy Moral Majority viewers as much as Taxi zum Klo. One of the intentions of this film seems to be to make us hypernormal—with a quiet vengeance that should win the NGTF seal of approval.
1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7 - not comparablehuman sciencesCharacterized by, or pertaining to, a personality disposition in which an individual exerts considerable effort to present themselves as socially normative to others.
The responsible-hypernormal personality is noted by efforts to maintain the appearance of personal integrity, self-sacrifice, and concern for others. Variants of this type strive excessively to achieve an inner ideal of proper and conventional behaviour […]
2011, Theodore Millon, Disorders of Personality - not comparablehuman sciencesOf an accelerated version of reality where the outlook is bleak, but there is no ability to change course.
- not comparablemathematicsA matrix M is hypernormal if, given any n by n diagonal matrix G with entries of 1 or -1, MᵀGM = G.
Origin
Translations
Japanese 超正常の
- 超正常の (chōseijō no)excess of the normal
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