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superˈnormal, a.
[super- 4 a.]
1. Exceeding that which is normal.
1868W. R. Greg Lit. & Soc. Judgm. 356 This vast amount of super-normal celibacy. 1910G. Tyrrell Autobiog. (1912) I. iii. 33 This deafness is covered by the acquired, super⁓normal acuteness of the other ear.
2. Applied to phenomena of an extraordinary or exceptional kind, involving a higher law or principle than those ordinarily occurring, but not necessarily supernatural. Also absol.
1885Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Res. III. 30 note, I have ventured to coin the word ‘supernormal’ to be applied to phenomena which are beyond what usually happens... By a supernormal phenomenon I mean,..one which exhibits the action of laws higher, in a psychical aspect, than are discerned in action in everyday life. 1886Times 30 Oct. 9/4 The phenomena of mesmerism, of hypnotism, and of other abnormal or supernormal conditions of the human consciousness. 1898Month Sept. 228 Alleged instances of the supernormal.
Hence superˈnormally adv.
1895Daily News 22 Nov. 4/7 Knowledge supernormally acquired. 1899A. Lang Myth, Rit. & Relig. xii. II. 23, Morals divinely and supernormally revealed. |