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normative

[ nawr-muh-tiv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

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

First recorded in 1875–80; norm + -ative

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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