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preternatural

adjective
  1. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, unnatural. See good, usual
  2. Greatly exceeding or departing from the normal course of nature: supernatural, unnatural. See usual
  3. Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world: extramundane, extrasensory, metaphysical, miraculous, superhuman, supernatural, superphysical, supersensible, transcendental, unearthly. See supernatural

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