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normativity

normativity

1 9.0
A quality of rules that tells people what to do
  • noun
  • /nɔːrˈmætɪvɪti/
  • Formal
translation icon : normatividad
  • Normal behavior is that which allows an individual to maintain itself in its situation, however well or poorly this might be, while normativity is the positing of norms that would define a new, expansive mode of life.
  • source of normativity
  • Conventional normativity
  • Legal normativity

So we can call this law, we can call this norm, we could call it normativity, whatever we want here.

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Examples

  • Value judgments, however, are not so easily avoided, and normativity constantly intrudes.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Recalling his earlier work, he continues to claim that the formulation of new norms always implies some normativity at work; indeed, we can recall that this is the very definition of normativity.

    Academic text (2017)

  • What is normal, then, follows from the normativity inherent within all life.

    Academic text (2017)

  • So rule following involves issues about normativity, it involves issues about dispositions.

  • And so there's, there's a normativity involved in the social contract.

  • The second reason is a suspicion of normativity itself that rests on a persistent philosophical mistake.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Cohen picks up on Korsgaard's claim that the source of normativity lies in the self-legislation and thus identity of the person.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Yet how does Mill's normativity enable him to reconcile his optimism with aberrations that might contradict it?

    Academic text (2016)

  • In his 1943 essay, Canguilhem had sought to define life with reference to norms, normality, abnormality, and normativity.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The normativity of ethical standards helps society to determine what is acceptable behavior.

Synonyms

normativeness
vsnormativity
  • Formal
9.3

The quality of setting rules or standards for behavior

has identical meaning but appears as an alternate formed term
prescriptiveness
vsnormativity
8.1

A way of making strict rules about how people should do things

is about standards and what is right rather than direct orders

How Normative

normativity
  • Formal
1 9.0

Surface Forms

normativity singular
normativities plural

Morphology

normativity = normative (transparent) = norm + ative + ity

Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'normative', which itself is a regular derivative of 'norm' + '-ative'.

Etymology

The word normativity comes from norm, meaning 'a rule' or 'standard', and the same root is in normal. The ending -ity means 'the state' or 'quality' of something. So normativity is the state or quality of making or following rules, which is why it refers to how something says what is right, acceptable, or required.