preternaturalness
特异功能,超自然,永恒性,特殊性
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Definitions
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- : out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- : outside of nature; supernatural.
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Examples
Both runners have repeatedly displayed a preternatural ability to close on this course, saving a final burst of energy so that they can be a half-yard ahead of their competition just as they cross the line.
He presided over the preternatural creation of 30 million new jobs—and the sharpest rise in median incomes in a generation.
There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.
Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.
He said he had heard about my wonderful “flying-spears,” and declined to fight me if I used such preternatural weapons.
Such were the truths which Mohammed, with preternatural earnestness, now declared,--doctrines which would revolutionize Arabia.
A preternatural dread of water rages among all the inhabitants of Rome, from the untitled down to the titled.
The vengeance of Baldassare is almost preternatural; it surpasses the wrath of Achilles and the malignity of Shylock.
By a preternatural light in the chamber he observed distinctly everything around him.