intraordinary

English

WOTD – 23 November 2019

Etymology

From intra- +‎ ordinary, by analogy with extraordinary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪntɹəˈɔːdɪn(ə)ɹi/, /ɪnˈtɹɔːdɪn(ə)ɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɹəˈɔɹdɪˌnɛɹi/
• Hyphenation: in‧tra‧or‧din‧a‧ry

Adjective

intraordinary (comparative more intraordinary, superlative most intraordinary)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Falling within normal parameters; normal, ordinary.

   Synonyms: unexceptional, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal

   Antonyms: extraordinary, superordinary, supraordinary

   • 1954, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, volume 28, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 224:

     It goes a great way perhaps towards explaining the secretion of urine, the formation of halitus from the lungs, the insensible and sensible perspiration from the other parts of animals, and the curious and intraordinary production of watery fluids [...]

   • 1994, Ken Dowden, “The Roman Audience of the Golden Ass”, in James Tatum, editor, The Search for the Ancient Novel, Baltimore, Md., London: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 419:

     My arguments will vary in strength and appeal, but I hope that they are usefully suggestive and present at the minimum a hypothesis worth entertaining. Perhaps we can make some sense of this extraordinary work by making it a little more "intraordinary".

   • 2004, Laura Maggioni, editor, The Monk and the Demon: Contemporary Chinese Art, Lyon: Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon; Milan: 5 Continents, →ISBN, page 8:

     These, while making no concessions to fair play or diplomatic stances, brought together a form of a benevolently critical lack of knowledge (i.e., ours); a form of extra- and intra-ordinary knowledge (i.e., that of Fei Dawei, an art historian, French since 2000; Fei in Mandarin means "not" or, in certain contexts, "against"); and a form of "absolute" acknowledgement (i.e., by the museum establishment).

   • 2006, Jo Treggiari, “Weak Tea and Stewed Chitterlings”, in The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton, Montreal, Que.: Lobster Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     "It is a place outside of place," Eunida answered. "Extra-ordinary as opposed to intra-ordinary."

   • 2007, Bernhard Waldenfels, “Lecture III: The Power of Events”, in The Question of the Other: The Tang Chun-I Lecture for 2004, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 40:

     Do we not have to accept two kinds of event i.e. intra-ordinary events, which take place on the ground of a given order, and extra-ordinary events, which leave this ground behind and change it? Or in other words, do we not have to presuppose that there are conformable and normal events on the one hand, and deviating and anomalous events on the other hand?

   • 2014, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini, Benjamin Todd Lee, “Introduction”, in Benjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini, editors, Apuleius and Africa (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies; 18), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, section 2 (State of the Question), pages 6–7:

     Ken Dowden's article "The Roman Audience of the Golden Ass" (1994), now the classic statement of this position, straightforwardly seeks to make the eccentric Metamorphoses more "intraordinary" by emphasizing the Roman spatial markers, the survival of the manuscript at Rome, Apuleius' probable residence at Rome, and other factors that give the novel a Roman rather than Carthaginian orientation.

   • 2017 August, Tyran Clement Grillo, “Skin and Soil”, in Cats, Dogs, and Cyborgs: Transcending the Human–Animal Divide in Contemporary Japanese Literature: […] (unpublished Doctor of Asian Studies dissertation)‎^[1], Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, archived from the original on 4 September 2019, page 140:

     What is especially frightening about Pet Sematary [1983, by Stephen King] is that there is nothing extraordinary about it. It is, in a sense, "intraordinary."

   • 2019, Bernard Matolino, “Structure of Modern Afro-Communitarianism”, in Afro-Communitarian Democracy, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137:

     [...] I am simply referring to what [Emmanuel Chukwudi] Eze calls the ordinary sense of reason. If we lack an intra-ordinary exercise of reason, and intra-reliance on that reason, then we are ultimately going to be found wanting in our interpretation of that world.

Alternative forms

• intra-ordinary

Translations

falling withing normal parameters — see also normal,‎ ordinary

• French: intraordinaire