preternatural

  1. Adjective.  Beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal.
  2. Adjective.  (dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world. In this sense, everything supernatural is also preternatural.

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