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normalcy

'nɒ:mlsi4 senses · 179 ms
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noun/ˈnɔɹməlsi/
  1. 1

    The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.countableuncountable

  2. 2

    The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.UScountableuncountable

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

syn. normalhood · normality · normaldom · normalness

ant. abnormalcy · abnormality

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