Crossword clues for normalcy
normalcy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
normalcy \nor"mal*cy\, n. The quality, state, or fact of being normal; the normal situation or condition; as, the point of normalcy. [R.]
Syn: normality.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, "mathematical condition of being at right angles," from normal + -cy. Associated since c.1920 with U.S. president Warren G. Harding and derided as an example of his incompetent speaking style. Previously used mostly in the mathematical sense. The word prefered by purists for "a normal situation" is normality (1849).
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
WordNet
n. being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning [syn: normality] [ant: abnormality]
expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common [syn: normality]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "normalcy".
Octagon, where Dolley was attempting to restore a semblance of normalcy to the official life of the devastated city.
The tardive dyskinesia had ceased with unconsciousness, and, relaxed, her face went from some caricature of madness to normalcy.
Typically, in normalcy at least, our bodies have sufficient filtration systems to deal with bacteriological and chemical impacts that nature foists upon us in any case.
A semblance of normalcy returned to the retirement community as the sounds of classical music, current technopop, sports, soap operas, and the occasional furtively tuned-in erotic movie resonated contentedly from apartment vid speakers.
While still a catechumen at the Obtrank Normalcy I made a mark with the purity of my logic.
In any normalcy of combat, assuming the equivalence of the units, the comparability of weaponry, the competence of the commanders, and such, Ar would be doomed.
She crunched the last numbers into a tractable series of equations and broke through the chaos of uncountably infinite subspaces into the blessed normalcy of RealSpace.
When it finally came free, he paused, crouching on one bent leg like some exotic avian, letting his heartbeat return to a semblance of normalcy.
For her socioscientific sense is sound as a bell, sir, her volucrine automutativeness right on normalcy: she knows, she just feels she was kind of born to lay and love eggs (trust her to propagate the species and hoosh her fluffballs safe through din and danger!
The monk that was Seve was disconnected from the many quotidian normalcies of life—the loves of family and friends had taken a backseat.
The Jimmy Carter who has waltzed so triumphantly down the middle of the road through one Democratic primary after another is a cautious, conservative and vaguely ethereal Baptist Sunday school teacher who seems to promise, above all else, a return to normalcy, a resurrection of the national self-esteem, and a painless redemption from all the horrors and disillusion of Watergate.
In their normalcy of appearance and unambiguousness of function they were almost heart-breakingly familiar.