Dictionary

normalcy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɔɹməlsi/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

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

Meanings

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.
   • 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. 2001, Jeffery Veen, The Art & Science of Web Design, →ISBN, page 104:
   • 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
   • When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy. 1928, Dorothy Parker, “The Searched Soul”, in Sunset Gun, New York: Boni & Liveright, page 36:
   • 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. 1920 May 14, Warren G. Harding, “Presidential Speeches: Warren G. Harding Presidency: May 14, 1920: Readjustment”, in Miller Center, University of Virginia:

Forms

Antonyms

abnormality · abnormalcy

Deriveds

seminormalcy · normalcy bias

Relateds

normalness · normally · normal · normality

Synonyms

normalhood · normaldom · normality · normalness

Translations (46)

ca normalitat (state of being normal) · ja 正常 (state of being normal) · cmn 常態 /常态 (state of being normal) · es normalidad (state of being normal) · ka ნორმალობა (state of being normal) · hu természetszerűség (state of being normal) · el κανονικότης (state of being normal) · fi normaalitila (state of being normal) · cmn 正常 (state of being normal) · hu szabályszerűség (state of being normal) · he נורמליות (state of being normal) · it normalità (state of being normal) · da normalitet (state of being normal) · ko 정상 (state of being normal) · be нарма́льнасць (state of being normal) · lv parastums (state of being normal) · cs normalita (state of being normal) · sh норма́лно̄ст (state of being normal) · lv parastība (state of being normal) · sh normálnōst (state of being normal) · nl normaliteit (state of being normal) · no normalitet (state of being normal) · fi normaalius (state of being normal) · cmn 正規 /正规 (state of being normal) · ru норма́льность (state of being normal) · cs normálnost (state of being normal) · fr normalité (state of being normal) · et normaalsus (state of being normal) · lv normālums (state of being normal) · hy նորմալություն (state of being normal) · ar الحَالَة الطَبِيعِيَّة (state of being normal) · pl normalność (state of being normal) · mk нормалност (state of being normal) · de Normalität (state of being normal) · ga normáltacht (state of being normal) · tr normallik (state of being normal) · sk normálnosť (state of being normal) · sl normalnost (state of being normal) · uk норма́льність (state of being normal) · sv normalitet (state of being normal) · lv normalitāte (state of being normal) · eo normaleco (state of being normal) · ro normalitate (state of being normal) · lt normalumas (state of being normal) · pt normalidade (state of being normal) · bg норма́лност (state of being normal)