PARANORMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paranormal mean? 

• PARANORMAL (adjective)
  The adjective PARANORMAL has 2 senses:

1. seemingly outside normal sensory channels

2. not in accordance with scientific laws

  Familiarity information: PARANORMAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARANORMAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seemingly outside normal sensory channels

Synonyms:

extrasensory; paranormal

Similar:

clairvoyant (perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses)

telegnostic (obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms)

telepathic (communicating without apparent physical signals)

Also:

paranormal (not in accordance with scientific laws)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not in accordance with scientific laws

Context example:

what seemed to be paranormal manifestations

Similar:

parapsychological (beyond normal physical explanation)

psychic; psychical (outside the sphere of physical science)

psychokinetic (moving an object without apparent use of physical means)

supernormal; supranormal (beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable)

Also:

unnatural (not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature)

extrasensory; paranormal (seemingly outside normal sensory channels)

Antonym:

normal (in accordance with scientific laws)