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normalcy
/ˈnɔɹməlsi/
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
boring, bourgeois, distasteful
VERB + NORMALCY
return, returned, won't
NORMALCY + NOUN
domestication, problem, revolution
Definitions
noun
1
The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
2
The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
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.
When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or c
noun — being within certain limits that define the range of normal
Antonyms
- abnormality
- abnormalcy
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 dis
Wiktionary02
When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.
Wiktionary03
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 w
Wiktionary04
Normalcy is boring.
Tatoeba · #276019505
We won't return to normalcy because normalcy was the problem.
Tatoeba · #872997306
Normalcy doesn't exist.
Tatoeba · #9817093Usage Notes
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