perinormal
adjEtymology 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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Medicine, Sciences Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological.
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Having previously been thought to be a paranormal phenomenon, but having since been scientifically verified as natural.
- 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).