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normalcy

[ nawr-muhl-see ]

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality:

    After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.



normalcy

  1. A word used by President Warren Harding to describe the calm political and social order to which he wished to return the United States after the idealism and commotion of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson .
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Notes

Normalcy has been used as a general term for the political climate in the United States in the early 1920s.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of normalcy1

First recorded in 1855–60; normal + -cy
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They are the new frontier of America, a strange return to some recognizable normalcy after years of being inundated with nothing but Kardashian clout-chasing.

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That alone makes this strike both brutal and symbolic: a calculated assault not just on lives, but on a fragile sense of normalcy the Indian state has worked hard to project in the disputed region.

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Domestically, Trump and his agents are targeting the American government and the country’s democratic norms, institutions, the rule of law, civil society, the Constitution, overall well-being and sense of normalcy.

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But whatever autonomy the young man can re-assert seems futile in the face of the Israeli occupation that hinders any sense of normalcy.

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Her memoir offered an intimate account of the ways that grief tears us away from normalcy.

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