normality
- noun
- /nɔrˈmælɪti/
- After months of uncertainty, the community finally experienced a return to normality as daily routines resumed.
- normality assumption
- normality test
- return to normality
The cells are going to kind of establish normality or metabolic health.
- The cells are going to kind of establish normality or metabolic health.
- But then I would kind of drop back down to normality and there was something missing.
- I'm thinking, no, I'm trying to get back to normality, and they're not allowing me to.
- And what they're doing is conditioning normality.
- So they're like expectations are just so beyond what normality is.
- So there are a range of sleep patterns that sit within the spectrum of normality for human beings.
- You have to sacrifice so much normality.
- So that's like that's your, that is your, that is your normality.
- You know that you like even survived that and landed in some place of normality.
- I I was insecure massively and I felt like that gave me some like normality or whatever.
- But Doctor Fauci said people may need to wear masks even as the United States may reach a, quote, significant degree of normality by the end of the year.
- She could have like she knew what normality was and what this was, whereas we didn't know what normality was.
Examples
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I had to try and get some normality back into life.
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Look, Janey is at university, Nick has got his own flat, Michael has settled down into something near normality and Abi is always out at evening class.
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But then I would kind of drop back down to normality and there was something missing.
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A bit of normality in your life.
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Some tried to achieve such normality as they could.
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I want a moment of normality.
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None of our test subjects has returned to... normality.
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A nation accustomed to war once again seeks a return to normality.
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It is in these actions, millions of acts of normality, that we find the best response to terrorism.
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The boredom of normality and the numbness of mediocrity stiffens your passion.
Synonyms
A usual way people in a group behave
The usual state when life returns to the expected routine
The usual or expected state
How much something is like a usual example in a group
A state of being ordinary and not special
The state of being ordinary and like a normal routine
How usual and not surprising something is
The quality of being seen as normal in a group or society
Days or tasks happen the same way again and again
Antonyms
How Normal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Normality comes from the Latin norma, a tool word meaning a 'rule' or a carpenter's 'square' used to make straight lines. So, normality is the state of following the usual rule or pattern — being 'what is expected'.