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normality

[ nawr-mal-i-tee ]

noun

plural normalities
  1. conformity to the standard, typical, or average level, rate, condition or set of conditions, characteristics, behavior, etc.:

    Any assumption of a quick return to normality and business as usual is premature.

    Surprising as it may sound, simple changes to your bed and lifestyle could prove to be the difference between severe pain and normality.

  2. Chemistry. the concentration of a solution relative to that of a normal solution, one that contains one equivalent weight of the solute per liter:

    Since gram equivalent weight is the measure of the reactive capacity of a molecule, the solute's role in the reaction determines the solution's normality.

  3. Statistics. the fact or property of showing a frequency distribution representable by a normal curve, a symmetrical bell-shaped curve:

    To confirm the statistical validity of the model I ran a number of diagnostics, checking for observations of influences and for normality of the distribution.



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Origin of normality1

First recorded in 1830–40; normal ( def ) + -ity ( def )
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Example Sentences

The new abnormal and unhealthy reality — what Yale University psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton refers to as “malignant normality†— will become the norm across American society.

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The nets are up, the police say they're ready and both managers have welcomed a return to something approaching Old Firm normality.

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The food, the games, the laughter, the normality... what was it about that blissful existence you hated so much, Kyle?

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Both she and her son have had counselling, which she said has helped, but they are still trying to find their way back to normality.

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The Andersons try to claw back some sense of normality by attending their second home — church.

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