Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perinormal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: peri-nor-mal
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological.

adj

Having previously been thought to be a paranormal phenomenon, but having since been scientifically verified as natural.

Example Sentences

"2007 March 3, Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., “Parapsychology and the Paranormal”, The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Google Groups The eventual acceptance by the scientific community and incorporation into the mainstream of science of phenomena that were once considered paranormal and then perinormal (e.g., hypnotism)."

Etymology

From peri- + normal. Sense 2: by analogy with paranormal, and apparently coined by Richard Dawkins, though he does not claim to have been its sole originator.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: peri

Questions

What does perinormal mean?: Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological.
Where does perinormal come from?: From peri- + normal. Sense 2: by analogy with paranormal, and apparently coined by Richard Dawkins, though he does not claim to have been its sole originator.

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