hypernormal
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- (psychology) Having or relating to a personality that makes one try hard to appear normal to others.
- 2011, Theodore Millon, Disorders of Personality:
- The responsible-hypernormal personality is noted by efforts to maintain the appearance of personal integrity, self-sacrifice, and concern for others. Variants of this type strive excessively to achieve an inner ideal of proper and conventional behaviour […]
- (mathematics) A matrix M is hypernormal if, given any n by n diagonal matrix G with entries of 1 or -1, MTGM = G.