supernormal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

	Word of the Day for Friday, October 26, 2012 supernormal \soo-per-NAWR-muhl\, adjective: 1. In excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production. 2. Lying beyond normal or natural powers of comprehension: supernormal intimations. On the other hand, the voyager may also feel that he possesses supernormal powers of perception and movement, that he can perform miracles, extraordinary feats of bodily control, etc … -- Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, The Psychedelic Experience The limbs twitched, the eyes gleamed, the blood-pressure appeared heightened, and there was a supernormal pinkness in the epidermis of the cheek. -- P. G. Wodehouse, Summer Lightning Supernormal was first used in the 1860s. The prefix super- has a number of common senses. In this case, it is used in the sense of "an individual, thing, or property that exceeds customary norms or levels" as in superstar. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› How the suffix "franken-" took on a life of its own. . . As Halloween quickly approaches, Frankenstorm is sneaking up on the East Coast. Forecasters are calling the hurricane headed for New York, New Jersey, and as far inland as Ohio, "Frankenstorm" because (like the monster in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein or The New Prometheus) this storm is stitched together from three different weather systems, Hurricane... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: thokozani031@gmail.com Subscriber since: February 15, 2012 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2012 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!