normalisms

Noun

normalism (countable and uncountable, plural normalisms)

1. (obsolete) Normality; A state in which most things are normal.
   • There is very little normalism in the English language, and the attempt to reduce it to stricter rules is necessarily a failure.1856, The English Journal of Education - Volume 10, page 141
2. A system of beliefs concerning how one determines what is considered normal.
   • The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism.2004, Cabinet - Issues 13-16, page 84
3. A tendency to consider most deviations as within the bounds of "normal".
   • Although a program of reason and moderation, normalism is not a program of compromise or opportunism.1914, Edward Thomas Devine, Social Forces, page 57
4. A bias against the abnormal.
   • The information books are coming through, though they are sadly lacking in any political dimension, and there are a few poetic books, but they don't combat normalism - the central concept of our society - that anyone who is not normal is inferior.1987, Gail Chester, Sigrid Nielsen, In other words: writing as a feminist, page 51