单词 | normlessness |
释义 | normlessnessn. The lack of any relevant norms or standards. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [noun] > a standard or norm > condition of being without normlessness1936 1936 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 1 243 It is my belief that in its purity, except sporadically and at times of anomie (‘normlessness’), the second type..does not appear. 1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory (1951) ii. iv. 128 There develops what Durkheim called ‘anomie’ (or normlessness). 1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society iv. v. 350 The individual is sheltered from the wider social anomie..the normlessness of the modern world. 1985 R. Dahrendorf Law & Order i. 29 If this is a sign of change, it signifies not the arrival of new valid norms but of normlessness, anomy. 1998 D. Hecht Skull Session i. viii. 62 The BCI school liaison officer came to talk about ‘normlessness’, the current buzzword at the Bureau. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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