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Normality

noun

Being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning. Synonym: normalcy. Antonym: abnormality.

(of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter. Synonym: N.

Expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common. Synonym: normalcy.

Conformity with the norm.

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"Normality" Quotes from Famous Books

... tunnel brought a mental confusion. I lost all sense of direction. The outer world of Earth was under my feet, instead of overhead. Then we went level. I forgot the confusion: this was normality here. We turned upward a little. Cross tunnels intersected ours at intervals. I saw caverns, open, widened tunnels, as though this ...

— Beyond the Vanishing Point • Raymond King Cummings

... absolute unbelief in a few days, and it means either a sudden onrush and brutal massacre of the foreigners, or the thing blows over after a short or long time of great strain, and ultimately things assume a normality in which the detection of the slightest ruffle in the surface of social life is ...

— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... be normal, just as all of the corn, in the first generation after the crossing, was yellow. But these children whose parents are the one normal and the other feeble-minded, while themselves normal, transmit feeble-mindedness in equal ratio with normality. It works out as follows: If a feeble-minded person marry a person of sound mind and sound stock, the children will all be of sound, normal mind. If these children take as husbands and wives men and women who had for parents one normal and one feeble-minded ...

— The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners • William Henry Pyle

... men; and offenders of the female sex, generally speaking, exhibit fewer degenerate characteristics. This is due in part to the tenacity with which the female adheres to normality, but also to the deviation caused in her criminality by prostitution. The history of this social phenomenon, and an examination of the anatomy and functions of the types representing this variation of criminality show that the prostitute ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero