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normalcy

[ nawr-muhl-see ]

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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.

normalcy

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.

First recorded in 1855–60; normal + -cy

Still, the urge to seek a return to normalcy remains powerful, he said, and could drive more people in Syria toward the truces.

Normalcy and reality were keystones of the Republican agenda.

I grew up in Matthews, North Carolina, and saw it as a very normal upbringing, so I crave normalcy and a slower pace.

The normalcy of his domestic life was somehow surprising to me.

My normalcy has its own poignancy and beauty to it that most hearing people will never know.

Perhaps you won't think so when you see me get back to normalcy.

But King Ferdinand was an unusually efficient king, and he spared no pains in his craving for normalcy.

The normalcy of this made my heart stop hammering, my heart catching up with my brain, and soon we were all sitting at the table.

He had to work out a plan that would solve everything and return the whole business to a state of normalcy.

We'll have tea and a talk as soon as I return to—to normalcy—that was Mr. Harding's way of expressing it, wasn't it?

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