normalcy

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normalcy

  • /ˈnɔɹməlsi/ US

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From normal + -cy. The original sense was mathematical. The broader sense was popularized in the United States by its use by President Warren G. Harding.https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normalcy

noun normalcies

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
  2. US, countable, uncountable 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 tr

Similar: normalhood, normality, normaldom, normalness · Opposite: abnormalcy, abnormality

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noun state of being normal

Españolnormalidad
한국어정상 jeongsang
日本語正常 seijō
中文正常 zhèngcháng, 常態 /常态 chángtài, 正規 /正规 zhèngguī
Portuguêsnormalidade
Françaisnormalité
DeutschNormalität
Italianonormalità
Ελληνικάκανονικότης kanonikótis
Românănormalitate
Русскийнорма́льность normálʹnostʹ
العربيةالحَالَة الطَبِيعِيَّة
עבריתנורמליות nurmalyút

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"normalcy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/normalcy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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normalcy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/normalcy

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"normalcy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/normalcy.

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@misc{normalcy_2026,
  title = {normalcy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/normalcy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}