infraordinary

adj

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from ōrdinārius
  2. derived from ordinarius
  3. derived from ordinaire
  4. derived from ordenarie
  5. formed as infraordinary — “infra- + ordinary

Definitions

  1. 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

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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