extranormal

English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ normal.

Adjective

extranormal (comparative more extranormal, superlative most extranormal)

1. Outside or beyond what is normal.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 214:

     The words "Coroner's Inquest" arrived in his mind, and disturbed it greatly. Those damned doctors would be peeking at that old corpse, exercising their ingenuity to explain that a thump on the skull had jerked life out of it. An extra-normal thump, too; damme, he had seen her hurtle through the air like a wet sack.

   • 2001, Linda Dégh, Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre, page 4:

     It seems that ghosts and legendary encounters in general thrive under the protection of law because their extranormal statements and implications require proof and provoke the less convincing counterproof.

   • 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths":

     Alex Danvers: The seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.

     Supergirl: That's...

     Brainiac: Extranormal?

     Supergirl: I was gonna say impossible, but OK.