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.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of normalcy¹

First recorded in 1855–60; normal + -cy

Example Sentences

"I wanted to give them a little normalcy."

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The last several months have in many ways been a blur, but it’s unclear when normalcy will resume.

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He holds an assembly where he says that “our Lord and savior Jesus Christ” is the only thing that can bring back some normalcy to these “corrupt times.”

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Underneath that performance of normalcy, however, lies a deeper heartache, a deeper injury, that we keep carefully contained, sensing that if we let it fully surface, it might overwhelm us.

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Nepal is gradually returning back to normalcy after the worst unrest in decades.

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Related Words

• normality 
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• uniformity