supernormaladj.n.

1834 E. Spencer tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tutti Frutti I. 148 The supernormal indemnification..has been the source of dissatisfaction to all parties.

1868 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. 356 This vast amount of super-normal celibacy.

1910 G. Tyrrell Autobiogr. (1912) I. iii. 33 This deafness is covered by the acquired, supernormal acuteness of the other ear.

1983 R. Kelly Under Words 150 Your hair had been wet from the sea..but was only damp now, resuming its supernormal fulness.

2002 S. D. Jap in T. Boone & R. Ganeshan New Direct. Supply Chain Managem. i. 8 There are many ways in which car manufacturers can create new customer value and earn supernormal rents.

1885 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 3 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.

1886 Times 30 Oct. 9/4 The phenomena of mesmerism, of hypnotism, and of other abnormal or supernormal conditions of the human consciousness.

1910 I. W. Heysinger Spirit & Matter l. 397 I could..fill a volume with narratives of supernormal phenomena.

1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. iv. 162 Super-normal status such as those enjoyed by clairvoyants and prophets may be the result of a natural gift of emotional and ecstatic insight.

2010 Chicago Sun Tribune (Nexis) 20 Oct. 41 New age notions..have the attraction of allowing believers to confer supernormal abilities on themselves and others without the bother of plausibility.

1972 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. 56/3 The rehabilitated Jack becomes supernormal, or, at, least, Mr. Barnes's idea of supernormal in today's wretched world.

1997 B. Wagner I'm losing You (1998) 128 We had dinner with him and he's sweetly super-normal.

2011 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Nov. 29 Sanclemente described herself as a ‘super-normal person, looking for opportunities in acting, which is what I love doing’.

1892 Unity Pulpit (Boston) 27 May 12 God was in the unusual, the super-normal, and especially in the terrible.

1917 New Age Mag. Sept. 416 Those who trade in the super-normal are naturally suspect.

1983 New Scientist 16 June 786/2 Tangible proof of the existence of God is the real aim of all research into the supernormal.

2005 G. S. Cross & J. K. Walton Playful Crowd ii. 94 This blending of the seemingly modern and uplifting with traditional fascination with the supernormal.

1895 Daily News 22 Nov. 4/7 Knowledge supernormally acquired.

1937 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 49 107 Tensing of the arm muscles..cannot offset the disturbing effects of the supernormally tensed muscles of the legs.

2007 D. Barrett Waistland 33 What happens when we eat these supernormally stimulating highly refined foods?