the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
Origin of normalcy
First recorded in 1855–60; normal + -cy
Words nearby normalcy
Norma, normal, normal antibody, normal antitoxin, normal curve, normalcy, normal distribution, normal distribution curve, normal divisor, normal equivalent deviate, normal fault
He longs to “live like ordinary men” who are “heedless of the gift” of normalcy they have.
Toward a queer Disney canon|Emily VanDerWerff|September 4, 2020|Vox
The dogged insistence on normalcy by schools, teams, fans and media stakeholders will all likely conspire to crown a champion in a more conventional fashion.
Why The Strike Matters|Sarah Shachat|September 1, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
In some countries, economies are already picking back up and life is returning to some semblance of normalcy.
A world divided into “cans” and “cannots”|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In turbulent times, your audience needs some nuggets of normalcy.
How to use trending keywords from current events in content marketing|Gregg Schwartz|July 23, 2020|Search Engine Watch
Still, the urge to seek a return to normalcy remains powerful, he said, and could drive more people in Syria toward the truces.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace|Joshua Hersh|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Normalcy and reality were keystones of the Republican agenda.
Earth to DNC: Dyspeptic Dad Still Votes, Too|Lloyd Green|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The normalcy of his domestic life was somehow surprising to me.
The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast|Robert B. Weide|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My normalcy has its own poignancy and beauty to it that most hearing people will never know.
This Is What It Is Like To Be Deaf From Birth|Quora Contributor|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Normalcy also works in Iowa for pro-life Republican Governor Terry Branstad.
Hillary Clinton Vs. the GOP Boys’ Club: Fighting for the Female Vote|Lloyd Green|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He had to work out a plan that would solve everything and return the whole business to a state of normalcy.
The Sex Life of the Gods|Michael Knerr
There are the children who have nothing, no love, no normalcy.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches|Various
The American radical's turn against America was a new thing, as new as the normalcy which provoked it.
Proclaim Liberty!|Gilbert Seldes
We will not measure up to those responsibilities by the simple return to "normalcy" that was tried after the last war.
State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman|Harry S. Truman
It provoked my doubts about this fellow's normalcy more than it provoked thoughts that this was the talk of an agent reporting in.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
A word used by President Warren Harding to describe the calm political and social order to which he wished to return the United States after the idealism and commotion of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
notes for normalcy
Normalcy has been used as a general term for the political climate in the United States in the early 1920s.