normalcy

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈnɔɹməlsi/

Definition of normalcy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
  2. (US, countable, uncountable)The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
    “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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From normal + -cy. The original sense was mathematical. The broader sense was popularized in the United States by its use by President Warren G. Harding.https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normalcy

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