Normative vs Customary - What's the difference?
normative | customary |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
As adjectives the difference between normative and customary
is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.As a noun customary is
a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.normative
English
(wikipedia normative)Adjective
(en adjective)- normative behaviour
- normative grammar