Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Normality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geometry, the state or fact of being normal.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The quality, state, or fact of being normal; the normal situation or condition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning
- n. expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common
Etymologies
- normal + -cy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As well as what I call normalcy, that is being beyond being bought.”
“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.”
“And then everybody quietly sits down, and normalcy is restored.”
“In spite of those things, a certain normalcy can often prevail.”
“When there are calamities, making the home a place of normalcy is even more important.”
“Yet the difference between “turning the corner” and a return to any sort of normalcy is vast.”
“I think people can be on them and maintain normalcy and dignity.”
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“The problem with trying to lead a sensible, upstanding life is that the choices you make and actions you follow on a regular basis quickly become part of your definition of normalcy.”
“Still, every little bit of normalcy is hailed here!”
“But if you are Homer Leon you are a regular American, you watch regular TV and you are regular, you are just folks and normalcy is good.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘normalcy’.
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big book gre
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indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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New GRE Preparation List
All the words which I encounter during my GRE studies. :)
rhetoric, errant, arrant, artless, artful, ephemeral, libel, rhapsody, cloy, conjecture, relegate, aberrant and 927 more...
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pbg's Words
obloquy, kickshaws, skeedaddle, cul-de-sac, bulldozer, euphuism, velleity, lagniappe, muliebrity, phylactology, algolagnia, ekpyrotic and 1 more...
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All the Presidents' Words
Words coined or popularized by U.S. presidents.
administration, Brother Jonathan, Jeffersonian, belittle, odometer, public relations, kitchen cabinet, Jacksonian, spoils system, OK, lame duck, teddy bear and 27 more...
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obfuscate, ambient intimacy, titilate, implement, wholly, defenestrate, savant, mire, miry, quandary, apocryphal, cyrbrid and 4 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear 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. Jul 31, 2009
bilby "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. Jul 31, 2009