normative

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard: normative grammar.

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  • As an approach, modernities is descriptive, interpretative and open ended, rather than critical, normative, and programmatic. —  Trade Observatory
  • The writers might have explored something vaguely political, such as the challenges non-normative (lesbian) relationships face, but instead they focused mainly on a series of fidelity tests. —  Ms. Magazine Online
  • This 'neutral' backdrop then becomes normative, and in so doing, relativizes in advance to all other claims to ultimacy. —  GetReligion
  • In general, most of Cronenberg's films tend to portray sexuality, normative and non-normative, as monstrous and nightmarish. —  PopMatters
  • "A generic form of evangelicalism is emerging as the normative form of non-Catholic Christianity in the United States." —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
 

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  1. from Latin normare, past participle normatus, set by the square, from norma, a square, norm: see norm.
 

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/ˈnɔrmətɪv/
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