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normative
[ nawr-muh-tiv ]
adjective
- of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- tending or attempting to establish such a norm, especially by the prescription of rules:
normative grammar.
- reflecting the assumption of such a norm or favoring its establishment:
a normative attitude.
normative
/ ˈnɔːmətɪv /
adjective
- implying, creating, or prescribing a norm or standard, as in language
normative grammar
- expressing value judgments or prescriptions as contrasted with stating facts
normative economics
- of, relating to, or based on norms
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Derived Forms
- ˈnormatively, adverb
- ˈnormativeness, noun
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Other Words From
- non-nor·ma·tive adjective
- nor·ma·tive·ly adverb
- nor·ma·tive·ness noun
- un·nor·ma·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of normative1
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Example Sentences
Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
“We are crushing it on the normative front,” the ever-blunt Ambassador Power declared.
Where Spreadsheets tries to track existing trends, Kahnoodle is more normative.
As a result of violence being normative, sexuality here is also violent.
I finally said, “You know, HIV is transmittable by good old-fashioned, red-blooded, hetero-normative, married sex.”
Mathematics is often cited as an example of purely normative thinking dependent upon a priori canons and supra-empirical material.
Thus is answered the dispute whether logic is empirical or normative, psychological or regulative.
The structure of alleged normative a priori mathematics is in truth the crowned result of ages of toilsome experience.
They have both a eulogistic or normative sense, and a descriptive sense; a meaning de jure and a meaning de facto.
It is the purity of the value-forms imagined in philosophy that makes philosophy "normative."
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