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normative
Word definitions for normative in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a norm or standard. 2 Conforming to a norm or norms. 3 Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
normative \normative\ adj. relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples. (Grammar) giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to descriptive . Syn: prescriptive. based on or prescribing a norm or standard; as, normative ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, perhaps from French normatif , from Latin norma "rule" (see normal ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples" giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [syn: prescriptive ] [ant: descriptive ] based on or prescribing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Normative in academic disciplines means relating to an ideal standard or model , and in particular a normative statement (or norm see below ) is a statement that affirms how things should or ought to be, that is how to value them. Normative disciplines ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An ideology is simply the elevation of a particular set of perceptions, assumptions, and analyses to a normative belief system. ▪ Christians may hold very different positions as to how far it is normative . ▪ It need not, ...
Usage examples of normative.
Peabody, back at Yale, with the cream-colored walls and the polished dark-wood trim, and of the arguments among the graduate students sitting around the long table: whether processual archaeology was primarily historical or primarily archaeological, whether formalist criteria outweighed objectivist criteria, whether derivationist doctrine concealed normative commitment.
The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.
The twitchers, who were victims of paralogical reprogramming, stay in one part of the camp, and the mods, those with functional normative modifications, stay in another.
Judgments about these matters are intimately related to the type of judgment that I have just called prescriptive or normative.
I wish to engage in normative heterosex during this, my relaxative period.
Within a more strongly differentiated temporal horizon, myth is distantiated to a tradition that stands out from the normative reality of society and from a partially objectivated nature.