Meanings
- uncountableThe condition of being a normie ("a normal person with generic tastes and beliefs").
Being self-aware about that helps me remember that my fear of normiedom has to be kept in check, because the conventional wisdom is often right.
2023 January 31, Helen Lewis, “The Internet Loves an Extremophile”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Feb 20233 more examples
But normies are always spouting stuff like Oh man, school is such a drag. Ah-ha-ha! And I lost my textbook over summer vacation! so why do they adore school so much? They show up every day, right? Perhaps espousing views one doesn't actually hold is a core tenet of normiedom.
2017 [2011], Wataru Watari, translated by Jennifer Ward, My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected, volume 3, Yen Press, →ISBNOzy knows that people within the industry doubt its claims around audience and reach. One of their major responses has been to push itself as a cutting-edge news operation that sees trends before they break into normiedom.
2021 September 28, Joshua Benton, “Ozy says it’s great at discovering big names before the mainstream media. But is it?”, in Nieman Foundation for Journalism, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023Reflecting on the type of imagery that often shows up on the covers of noise and HNW releases—with extreme pornography and Faces of Death—style imagery abundant—he is careful to describe this transgressiveness as something like a rite of passage, emphasizing HNW's role as piercing the veil of normiedom.
2022, Michael Tau, Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between, Feral House, →ISBN
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normiedom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/normiedom
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