perinormal

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological. not-comparable
  2. Having previously been thought to be a paranormal phenomenon, but having since been scientifically verified as natural. not-comparable
    — 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).

词源

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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