infraordinary
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from ōrdinārius
- derived from ordinarius
- derived from ordinaire
- derived from ordenarie
Definitions
Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.
- 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.
- More generally, the historical idea of Little Italy weans its authority from the worlding effects of the colony's infraordinary everyday life, which appears as a fully visualized morphology.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for infraordinary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA