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View synonyms for paranormal

paranormal

[ par-uh-nawr-muhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena.


paranormal

/ ˌpærəˈnɔːməl /

adjective

  1. beyond normal explanation


noun

  1. the paranormal
    paranormal happenings generally

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Other Words From

  • para·normal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of paranormal1

First recorded in 1915–20; para- 1 + normal

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Example Sentences

His weeknight program, “Coast-to-Coast AM,” discussed aliens, paranormal activity, and shadowy government cover-ups.

After a decade of managing the Borden home, Wilber is chock-full of stories of hauntings and paranormal sightings.

In her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, Mantel writes of her own childhood encounters with the paranormal.

They have had a spiritual or numinous or paranormal experience at some point in their own lives.

Paranormalsocieties.com, an online national paranormal directory, has over 4,000 paranormal groups registered to its website.

They were fellow pariahs, Suspended for one reason or another from paraNormal privileges.

As for photographs, I have never obtained any paranormal ones.

But my principle is not to let these considerations have any weight, when judging of a paranormal fact.

I have just pointed out in detail certain purely physical processes for provoking the production of paranormal phenomena.

There is a synergy between their movements and their muscular contractions and the forthcoming paranormal movements.

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