Normalcy
//ˈnɔɹməlsi// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle. countable, uncountable
- 2 expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common wordnet
- 3 The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality. US, countable, uncountable
"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."
- 4 being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning wordnet
Example
More examples"We won't return to normalcy because normalcy was the problem."
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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