normalitynor‧mal‧i‧ty /nɔːˈmæləti $ nɔːr-/ ●○○ AWL (also nor‧mal‧cy /ˈnɔːməlsi $ ˈnɔːr-/ American English) noun [uncountable] - Both leaders say they hope the relationship between their two countries will be restored to normality.
- The children soon settled down once normality was re-established.
- The war-torn area is returning to normality.
- A current example of Doublethink about normality is the way many mental health professionals classify behavior in old people.
- Another way to think about normality is to call it the absence of most conflict and anxiety.
- As a first-year graduate student, I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.
- Describing everyone as neurotic makes any distinction between normality and neurosis impossible.
- Gradually she led the interview to a quietus, a normality of future projects.
- The normality judgment task has an additional purpose.
- The main office gradually returned to a semblance of normality.
- The same is true of the construct of normality.
the normal situation► get back to normal/return to normal if a situation gets back to normal or returns to normal , it becomes normal again after a period when it was not normal: · After the war it took a long time for things to get back to normal.· The strike has caused serious problems, but we hope bus services will quickly return to normal.
► normality also normalcy American written a situation in which everything is normal and exactly how you would expect it to be: · The children soon settled down once normality was re-established.· Both leaders say they hope the relationship between their two countries will be restored to normality.· The town had a cheerful air of normalcy despite the extra policemen everywhere.
► return to normality We’re hoping for a return to normality as soon as possible. ► some semblance of normality We’ll soon get back to some semblance of normality. VERB► return· While Little Weirwold was returning to normality, events in the larger world continued to escalate.· The capital continued calm Tuesday, and authorities said Tirana airport would reopen Thursday in a further sign of returning normality.· We're trying to return C-Wing to normality.
nounnormality/normalcy ≠ abnormalitynormalnormalizationadjectivenormal ≠ abnormalverbnormalizeadverbnormally ≠ abnormally