Mores vs Norm - What's the difference?
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A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, page 99:
* 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 165:
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That which is regarded as normal or typical.
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A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
(mathematics) A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
# if then ;
# given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
# given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
As a noun mores
is jackdaw.As a proper noun norm is
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(wikipedia mores)Alternative forms
* moeursEtymology 1
From the (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past?—?a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores , political and religious restrictions.
- It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos'' with its plural ''mores'', and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the ''mores ?—?the rules of behaviour?—?of a society.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) norme, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia norm)- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
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- Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms .
