Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈnɔɹməlsi/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ˈnɔɹməlsi
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
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- Uncountable
The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
Usage- US usage
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More examples (1)
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.
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The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.
I’ve been consistently awed by how good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.
Noun
being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning
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expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common
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