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Normality vs Normativity - What's the difference?

normality | normativity |

As nouns the difference between normality and normativity

is that normality is (uncountable) the state of being normal or usual; normalcy while normativity is the state of being normative.

normality

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being normal or usual; normalcy.
  • :Jessie was going to wear pants to school, but her brother persuaded her to wear shorts to preserve normality .
  • (chemistry) The concentration of a solution expressed in gram equivalent weights of solute per litre of solution.
  • (countable, mathematics, statistics) A measure of how well an observed distribution approximates a normal distribution.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being normal) normalcy (US)

    Antonyms

    * abnormality

    See also

    * molarity * molality

    normativity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state of being normative
  • the state of being a norm

    • Synonyms

    * normativeness (less common )

    See also

    * descriptivity * prescriptivity