Normal

Main form: normal, word type::adjective. Used both descriptively (adding detail) and restrictively (restricting the subject). In sciences, typically used in a binary sense (something is either normal or is not normal), whereas in the social sciences and daily parlance, typically used to describe position on a wider scale.

Related forms: normality (how normal something is), normalcy (the condition of being normal), normalize/normalise (make normal)

Same roots: Root related::norm

Typical use:


 * Something customary, typical, routine, expected, or standard. Similar words: Similar::ordinary, Similar::typical, Similar::standard, Similar::average, Similar::expected, Similar::routine
 * Something good or desirable, or something one optimistically hopes for. Similar words: Similar::conventional, Similar::standard, Similar::canonical
 * Upright or perpendicular. Similar::orthogonal, Similar::perpendicular

Opposite words: Opposite::abnormal, Opposite::paranormal, Opposite::strange

Derived words: Derived::conormal, Derived::abnormal, Derived::subnormal, Derived::supernormal, Derived::paranormal, Derived::contranormal, Derived::malnormal, Derived::pseudonormal, Derived::orthonormal, Derived::seminormal, Derived::quasinormal