paranormal
of or relating to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena.
Origin of paranormal
1Other words from paranormal
- par·a·nor·mal·ly, adverb
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How to use paranormal in a sentence
While it was Halloween last week, that sort of “ghostly” string behavior would simply have been too paranormal.
It definitely didn’t begin with grand ideas about human psychology and the paranormal, or about flaws and acceptance.
Someone out there wants to adopt your creepy toys. There’s a matchmaker for that. | Maureen O'Hagan | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post“A lot of people don’t want to talk about the paranormal because they’re scared what other people will think,” she said.
Someone out there wants to adopt your creepy toys. There’s a matchmaker for that. | Maureen O'Hagan | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostSome evidence even suggests that people with underlying brain disorders tend to have paranormal confrontations that are more intense and negative than the average brush with the beyond.
This “feeling of a presence” phenomenon has more general implications for the hard-to-study field of the paranormal too.
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.
Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House? | Nina Strochlic | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Cerebrum | Albert TeichnerAs for photographs, I have never obtained any paranormal ones.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellBut my principle is not to let these considerations have any weight, when judging of a paranormal fact.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellI have just pointed out in detail certain purely physical processes for provoking the production of paranormal phenomena.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellThere is a synergy between their movements and their muscular contractions and the forthcoming paranormal movements.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. Maxwell
British Dictionary definitions for paranormal
/ (ˌpærəˈnɔːməl) /
beyond normal explanation
the paranormal paranormal happenings generally
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