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infraordinary

adjective

  1. Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.

    literary

    There is richness in every verse, with ever now and then a bit of imagery that must inevitably stamp itself upon even an infraordinary intelligence.

Where it comes from

From infra- + ordinary. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term l'infra-ordinaire in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?). First attested in 1827.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry infraordinary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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