normalism

noun normalisms

1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Normality; A state in which most things are normal. There is very little normalism in the English language, and the attempt to reduce it to stricter rules is necessarily a failure.
2. countable, uncountable A system of beliefs concerning how one determines what is considered normal. The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism.
3. countable, uncountable A tendency to consider most deviations as within the bounds of "normal". Although a program of reason and moderation, normalism is not a program of compromise or opportunism.
4. countable, uncountable A bias against the abnormal. The information books are coming through, though they are sadly lacking in any political dimension, and there are a few poetic books, but they don't combat normalism - the central concept of our society - that anyone who is not normal is inferior.