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paraˈnormal, a.
[para-1.]
Applied to observed phenomena or powers which are presumed to operate according to natural laws beyond or outside those considered normal or known; also absol. Hence paranorˈmality, the state or character of being paranormal; paraˈnormally adv. Cf. supernormal a.
1920Webster Add., Paranormal. 1935Discovery May 138 (caption) The paranormal displacement of a handkerchief actuated electrically the flashlight by which this photograph was taken. 1950A. Huxley Themes & Variations 133 The general tendency of ideas to embody themselves at any price and by fair means or foul, normally or paranormally. 1955― Let. 30 June (1969) 749 Two ‘sensitives’, one who specializes in paranormal diagnosis, the other a ‘healer’. 1958J. Blish Case of Conscience (1959) i. 82 He has no belief in the supernatural—or, as we're calling it in our barbarous jargon these days, the ‘paranormal’. 1959Listener 11 June 1032/3 Her judgments will be equally remote from dogmatic incredulity and uncritical acceptance of claims to paranormality. 1961W. H. Salter Zoar ii. 15 ‘Paranormal’ has now in general use taken the place of ‘supernormal’. Ibid. vi. 69 They were convinced that the moulds were produced paranormally by ‘Ideoplasmy’. 1968New Scientist 24 Oct. 209/2 The out-of-the-body or ‘ecsomatic’ experience has long been familiar to students of the paranormal. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 Apr. 5/2 Critics who dislike the seemingly paranormal condemn the claims with a vehemence beyond objective scientific candor. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 30 Nov. 26/1 The individuals who have been at the receiving end of the paranormally-transmitted information. Ibid. 31/3 Jung was to claim that if he had his life over again, it would have been devoted to the study of the paranormal. 1975Nature 10 Apr. 470/2 Among the claims made are that plasticity of metal was paranormally produced. 1976‘J. Ross’ I know what it's like to Die xxv. 157 Rogers' belief..in the paranormality of Pybus's experiment with the two dead bodies. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Oct. 45/2 The enormous qualitative difference between testing psychics for paranormal powers, and experimentation in all other branches of science. |