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normalcy

noun
/ˈnɔɹməlsi/US

Etymology

From normal + -cy. The original sense was mathematical. The broader sense was popularized in the United States by its use by President Warren G. Harding.https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normalcy

  1. derived from normālis
  2. suffixed as normalcy — “normal + cy”

Definitions

  1. The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.

  2. The state of being normal

    The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.

    • When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.
    • The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

The neighborhood

Derived

normalcy bias, seminormalcy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for normalcy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA