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perinormal

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: medicine, sciences

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adj

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 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).

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History

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.