normality
Americannoun
PLURAL
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conformity to the standard, typical, or average level, rate, condition or set of conditions, characteristics, behavior, etc..
Any assumption of a quick return to normality and business as usual is premature.
Surprising as it may sound, simple changes to your bed and lifestyle could prove to be the difference between severe pain and normality.
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Chemistry. the concentration of a solution relative to that of a normal solution, one that contains one equivalent weight of the solute per liter.
Since gram equivalent weight is the measure of the reactive capacity of a molecule, the solute's role in the reaction determines the solution's normality.
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Statistics. the fact or property of showing a frequency distribution representable by a normal curve, a symmetrical bell-shaped curve.
To confirm the statistical validity of the model I ran a number of diagnostics, checking for observations of influences and for normality of the distribution.
Etymology
Origin of normality
First recorded in 1830–40; normal ( def. ) + -ity ( def. )
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It seems like she’s the one who’s hiding something, but James’ veneer of normality is not quite what it seems.
From Los Angeles Times
“My uncle struggled with, I think, feeling what he thought was normality as a gay person,” says Sykes.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet despite the emotional pain, the region has been making substantial strides back to normality.
From BBC
“Over the months, I became acclimated to the normality within his insulated lifestyle,” Crowe writes.
From Los Angeles Times
But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.
From Los Angeles Times
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