Normalcy

Quick meaning: Normalcy is a noun meaning (mathematics) The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.

Meaning

(mathematics) The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.

More Meanings

1. (US) The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.

Example Sentences

When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• normalcies

Synonyms for normalcy

Depending on context, synonyms include normalhood, normality, normalness.

Antonyms for normalcy

Common opposites include abnormalcy, abnormality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include normality, norm, normal, normalizing, normalisation, normalization.

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