Meaning of infraordinary | Babel Free

Definitions

Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.

literary

Examples

“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.”

“"On the Calculation of Volume," structured as a numbered diary (we begin on Tara's 121st Nov. 18), plunges us into what Georges Perec called the infraordinary, the perplexities of the habitual and the banal: a stirring confrontation with reality that feels genuinely new. These books might brim with repetitions, but they are hardly recapitulations.”

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