supernormalityn.

1886 Jrnl. Soc. Psychical Res. Mar. 224 We must not take the reproduction of known handwritings as a proof of anything beyond some supernormality in the writer's state.

1909 O. Lodge Survival of Man i. i. 2 Assertions concerning psychological supernormalities have not only excited attention, but have rather notably roused the interest of careful and responsible students.

1922 19th Cent. Oct. 600 One of the first indications of potential genius in school children is unusual precocity or mental supernormality.

1977 D. Morris Manwatching 277 Having exhausted one line of supernormality, we switch to another, selecting a new element for improvement and dwelling on that until it too has become stale.

2007 J. Perl New Art City vii. 276 These domestic objects were shocked out of their normality into a kind of supernormality that was poetry.

1945 New Yorker 7 Apr. 74/2 Now that the end [of the war] is practically at hand, the supernormality of the English is surprising.

1967 Times 27 July 6/3 The innocent is a secretary..whose average response to every product on the market turns out to be a priceless asset. Exploiting her supernormality to the utmost, her bosses panic when she gets sudden cultural aspirations.

2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Sept. c10 Her super-normality isn't simply bland; it is empty and lifeless.