normalcy

English

Etymology

normal +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔɹməlsi/

Noun

normalcy (countable and uncountable, plural normalcies)

(US) The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
- c.1998: Jeffery Veen, The Art & Science of Web Design
  Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

Usage notes

Although sometimes used, normalcy is less common than normality in American English. It is very rarely used in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It is frequent in India and Zimbabwe however. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Synonyms

normality (UK, US), normaldom; see also Thesaurus:normality

Antonyms

Translations

state of being normal

Arabic: الحَالَة الطَبِيعِيَّة‎ f (al-ḥāla(t) aṭ-ṭabīʿiyya)
Armenian: նորմալություն (normalutʿyun)
Bulgarian: нормалност f (normalnost)
Catalan: normalitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 正常 (zh) (zhèngcháng), 常態 (zh), 常态 (zh) (chángtài), 正規 (zh), 正规 (zh) (zhèngguī)
Czech: normálnost f, normalita f
Danish: normalitet c
Dutch: normaliteit (nl)
Esperanto: normaleco
Estonian: normaalsus
Finnish: normaalius (fi), normaalitila
French: normalité (fr) f
Georgian: ნორმალობა (normaloba)
German: Normalität (de) f
Greek: κανονικότητα (el) f (kanonikótita), κανονικότης (el) f (kanonikótis)
Hebrew: נורמליות‎ f (nurmalyút)
Hungarian: szabályszerűség (hu), természetszerűség (hu)
Irish: normáltacht f

Italian: normalità (it) f
Japanese: 正常 (ja) (seijō)
Korean: 정상 (ko) (jeongsang)
Latvian: normālums m, normalitāte f, parastums m, parastība f
Lithuanian: normalumas m
Norwegian: normalitet m
Polish: normalność (pl) f
Portuguese: normalidade (pt) f
Romanian: normalitate (ro) f
Russian: норма́льность (ru) m (normálʹnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нормалност f

Roman: normalnost (sh) f
Slovak: normálnosť f
Slovene: normalnost f
Spanish: normalidad (es) f
Swedish: normalitet (sv) c
Turkish: normallik (tr)
Ukrainian: нормальність m (normalʹnistʹ)

References

Dictionary.com
Merriam-Webster Online

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