normativenessn.

1914 S. J. Case Evol. Early Christianity (1917) 27 Since experience is not externally and mechanically mediated, variation does not invalidate its content not does uniformity guarantee its normativeness.

1953 J. G. Peristiany in D. F. Pocock tr. E. Durkheim Sociol. & Philos. p. xv The generality of a fact..is significant in this context only in relation to its generality, in the sense of its normativeness.

1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 122 If the ‘normativeness’ of chivalric virtues is shaped and sustained by the style that describes it the destruction of this normativeness should also be reflected on the style.

2000 Social Forces 79 112 Validity reduces the probability of redress..by inducing individual-level support via beliefs about the system's normativeness.