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paranormal Definition

para·nor·mal (par′ə nôrməl)

adjective

designating or of psychic or mental phenomena outside the range of the normal

Etymology: para- + normal

paranormal Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • investigator: A local paranormal investigator, called Steve Pointer, was asked by Central News what he thought of the CCTV footage.
  • phenomenon: Psychic paranormal phenomena occur whilst personalities are still alive.
  • occurrence: Indian Skeptic is a magazine which publishes articles on the scientific investigation of apparently paranormal occurrences.
  • manifestation: The second is that they are a paranormal manifestation.
  • deweyclass: Author: Edinburgh University Psychology Department Subjects: paranormal DeweyClass: 130 Resource type: index New Frontier Electronic version of the print journal.
  • romance: I really liked Connie Flynn's chapter on paranormal romances.

Modifying Another Word

  • ostensibly: Why do so many people believe in the paranormal and what might underlie ostensibly paranormal experiences if in fact paranormal forces do not exist?
  • apparently: Rituals in darkened tents with apparently paranormal voices or objects are the stock-in-trade of northern shamanic practices.
  • not: Whether or not paranormal forces exist, French's research will have useful applications.
  • supposedly: Many supposedly paranormal events are also fakes, coincidences or delusions of some kind.
  • allegedly: Thus, in his experiments, he measured electromagnetic fields around subjects performing allegedly paranormal feats.
  • seemingly: Take, for example, the reports from widely scattered regions of the globe, of the seemingly paranormal aspects of some UFO reports.