Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation: such paranormal phenomena as telepathy; a medium's paranormal powers.
Wiktionary
- adj. That which cannot be explained by scientific methods.
- adj. Supernatural.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. seemingly outside normal sensory channels
- adj. not in accordance with scientific laws
Etymologies
- para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + normal; compare supernatural. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The book itself goes along the lines of paranormal romance and urban fantasy, settling for the title paranormal suspense.”
“When considering these and other unconventional scientific topics, it might be useful for science journalists to abandon the term paranormal and think about aspects of them that may be normal and natural, and therefore worthy of normal journalistic inquiry.”
“The discovery was made Friday night when the Brooke County Paranormal Society visited the mansion to conduct what they call a paranormal investigation, something they do frequently at different locations.”
“He argues that perhaps the strongest single drive in human beings is what he calls the paranormal belief imperative.”
“I'm not sure what the word "paranormal" is supposed to mean, other than phenomena that you personally believe don't exist.”
“Paula: I wasn’t trying to insult with the term paranormal romance.”
“Everybody's haunted by something, even people who think the paranormal is stupid.”
“The combination of mystery and paranormal is a fond personal favorite, and a reimagining of this story is one I think I would have fun with, from both a creative and a viewer standpoint.”
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“And since paranormal is a fave of mine, I figure if authors can write about demons and werewolves and vampires mating with humans, then I'd think writing about other cultures would be a snap.”
“I'm not a big believer in paranormal activity, but this phrase makes me laugh and describes almost exactly the way these things make me feel: mystified and curmudgeonly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paranormal’.
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A-R-A Words
It's an odd-looking pattern in English. Please add words if it makes you happy. :) K-POW! Wow @gulyasrobi!
scarab, Arawak, Sahara, Arab, pharaoh, caravan, carat, parachute, arachnid, Saran Wrap, Sarah, tarantella and 492 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Unfamiliar Words
dank, refrain, hostage, frigid, warden, atrocious, squirm, kinship, riot, counterfeit, stamped, scaffolding and 59 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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words I like for one reason or another
nostalgia, corgi, ambiguous, anachronistic, bamboozled, eloquent, emporium, sacrosanct, nascent, obfuscate, miscellaneous, kaleidoscopic and 113 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1692 more...
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magic
words for your grimiore
prophecy, necromancy, grimoire, tasseography, palmisrty, talisman, pentical, beshrew, soothsaying, paranormal, supernatural, magic and 39 more...
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strange magic
bewitched, occult, clairvoyance, divination, arcane, enigmatic, ouija, black-magic, planchette, esoteric, palmistry, pataphysics and 13 more...
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adjectives
perfect, hirsute, attractive, pulchritudinous, synchronic, familiar, mellow, stark, articulate, tangible, elusive, fierce and 39 more...
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technobabble
robot, aether, arcane, device, paranormal, sixth sense, ectoplasm, ether, cryptography, humors, simulacrum, alchemy and 20 more...
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Para
paradise, paranormal, paradox, paradiddle, paramecium, parameter, parachute, paralegal, paramedic, parabola, paradigm, parallel and 3 more...
Tweets
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