Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Normality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, the state or fact of being normal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality, state, or fact of being normal; the normal situation or condition.
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- noun US The state of being
normal ; the fact of being normal;normality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning
- noun expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common
Etymologies
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Examples
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As well as what I call normalcy, that is being beyond being bought.
Gort42 2009
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And it is true that many who put Mr. Harding in power regard him as the symbol of something which they call normalcy; which may roughly be translated into English by the word normality.
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Yet the difference between “turning the corner” and a return to any sort of normalcy is vast.
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In spite of those things, a certain normalcy can often prevail.
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I think people can be on them and maintain normalcy and dignity.
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Reality Shows | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Yet the difference between “turning the corner” and a return to any sort of normalcy is vast.
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In spite of those things, a certain normalcy can often prevail.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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When there are calamities, making the home a place of normalcy is even more important.
Peace in the Storm 2009
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And then everybody quietly sits down, and normalcy is restored.
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When there are calamities, making the home a place of normalcy is even more important.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
bilby commented on the word normalcy
"The opposition's resilience has clearly taken Ahmadinejad and Khamenei by surprise. At a minimum, the opposition has deprived Ahmadinejad of any sense of normalcy, forcing him to devote several hours a day to address the election dispute instead of advancing his own political agenda."
- Trita Parsi, Make Them Wait, truthout.org, 30 July 2009.
July 31, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word normalcy
This word kind of bugs me, but also makes me think of Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge. Which is kind of pathetic on my part, since it was Warren Harding's thing.
July 31, 2009
alexz commented on the word normalcy
seeing this word being used ... my brain goes... 'what.. what is this odd looking word?' and it tries to sound it out like I was in grade 2 with a phonics book... is it a hard C or a soft C ... the brain stumbles... sounds it out to a sound which is familiar, but the letters still look like they're in a strange unfamiliar pattern. It's been a long time, but normalcy is back.
January 22, 2021