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Normalcy definition: the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality. See examples of NORMALCY used in a sentence.
The earliest known use of the noun normalcy is in the 1850s. OED's earliest evidence for normalcy is from 1857, in a dictionary by Charles Davies. normalcy is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: normal adj., ‑cy suffix. See etymology.
4 days ago · normalcy in American English. (ˈnɔrməlsi) noun. 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. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
noun. The quality or condition of being usual: customariness, habitualness, normality, ordinariness, prevalence, regularity, routineness, usualness. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
nor•mal•cy (nôr′ məl sē), n. 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. normal + - cy 1855–60.
[noncount] chiefly US. : a normal condition or situation : normality. Let's hope for an end to the war and a return to normalcy. NORMALCY meaning: a normal condition or situation normality.
/nɔːˈmæləti/ /nɔːrˈmæləti/ (also normalcy. /ˈnɔːmlsi/ /ˈnɔːrmlsi/ especially in North American English) [uncountable] a situation where everything is normal or as you would expect it to be. They are hoping for a return to normality now that the war is over. By now any semblance of normality had disappeared. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
