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normality

UK/nɔːˈmæl.ɪ.ti/US/nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ti/US[nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ɾi]Australia/noːˈmæl.ə.ti/

noun

What it means

  1. uncountableThe state of being normal or usual; normalcy.

    Jessie was going to wear pants to school, but her brother persuaded her to wear shorts to preserve normality.

  2. countableuncountablechemistryThe concentration of a solution expressed in gram equivalent weights of solute per litre of solution.
  3. countablemathematicsA measure of how well an observed distribution approximates a normal distribution.

In a sentence

Jessie was going to wear pants to school, but her brother persuaded her to wear shorts to preserve normality.

Where it comes from

  1. Frenchnormalité
  2. Englishnormality

From normal + -ity, perhaps modelled on French normalité.

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