PRETERNATURAL

Preternatural

The preternatural or praeternatural is that which appears outside or beside the natural. In contrast to the supernatural, preternatural phenomena are presumed to have explanations that are unknown. It is "suspended between the mundane and the miraculous".

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preternatural

Adjective

  1. Beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal.
  2. Having an existence outside of the natural world. In this sense, everything supernatural is also preternatural.


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