hypernormal

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ normal.

Adjective

hypernormal (not comparable)

  1. In excess of the normal; above the normal.
    • 1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:
      The film is liberal and nonjudgemental and will annoy Moral Majority viewers as much as Taxi zum Klo. One of the intentions of this film seems to be to make us hypernormal—with a quiet vengeance that should win the NGTF seal of approval.
  2. (sociology, psychology) Characterized by, or pertaining to, a personality disposition in which an individual exerts considerable effort to present themselves as socially normative to others.
    • 2011, Theodore Millon, Disorders of Personality:
      The responsible-hypernormal personality is noted by efforts to maintain the appearance of personal integrity, self-sacrifice, and concern for others. Variants of this type strive excessively to achieve an inner ideal of proper and conventional behaviour […]
  3. (sociology, psychology) Of an accelerated version of reality where the outlook is bleak, but there is no ability to change course.
  4. (mathematics) A matrix M is hypernormal if, given any n by n diagonal matrix G with entries of 1 or -1, MTGM = G.

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