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normcore

Syllables: norm·core/ˈnɔːmkɔː/US/ˈnɔɹmˌkoɹ/

normcore noun: a unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.

normcore: a unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing
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Noun

normcore (uncountable)

  1. A unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.
    • That means he's normcore. Dangerously regular. Dresses only in T-shirts an' jeans, uses slang appropriated from other sub cultures, but only 3 years after it's^([sic – meaning its]) first use, an' only after it's been used in a sitcom.[2008 September 17, Ryan Estrada, “Ryan Estrada Day: Templar, Arizona”, in Templar, Arizona, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015
    • Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing. She had to admit that she still found him attractive.2014, Harper Lin, chapter 3, in Croissant Murder (A Patisserie Mystery with Recipes; book 5), Kingston, Ont.: Harper Lin Books, →ISBN
  2. (attributive, broadly) Any style that is mainstream or unremarkable.
    • "That's normcore painting, and that's what people are buying and trading now," [Deborah] Kass said, along with some slightly more colorful critique she opted to keep off the record.2015 December 9, Alexandria Symonds, “Art as social critique — with a little help from The Rolling Stones and Katy Perry”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...

normcore meaning in Tamil

normcore in Tamil

எளிய உடை விருப்பர்

Examples of normcore in a sentence

  • Normcore is gray sweatpants pretending to be trousers.2014 April 7, Simon Doonan, “Beware of Normcore”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12...
  • Even if she'd come from the heart of normcore, her tale would be worth telling and well told.2015 August, Joss Whedon, “Foreword”, in Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone...

Origin of normcore

From norm(al) (“according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern”) + -core (suffix denoting genres of music and subcultures (often specialized and underground)), coined by the cartoonist Ryan Estrada in a guest comic strip for the webcomic Templar, Arizona on 17 September 2008: see the quotation. It was popularized in a stylized, tongue-in-cheek trend report produced by the collective K-HOLE in 2013.

Words formed from normcore

Questions about normcore

What does normcore mean?
Normcore means a unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.
What is normcore in Tamil?
Normcore in Tamil is எளிய உடை விருப்பர். See Normcore meaning in Tamil.
How do you use normcore in a sentence?
Normcore is gray sweatpants pretending to be trousers.
What part of speech is normcore?
Normcore is a noun.
How do you pronounce normcore?
Normcore is pronounced /ˈnɔːmkɔː/ (UK).

Words near normcore in the dictionary

  1. normativizations
  2. normativize
  3. normativized
  4. normativizes
  5. normativizing
  6. normcore
  7. normed
  8. normed vector space
  9. normed vector spaces
  10. normelatonin
  11. Normen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: normcore (page history and authors); normcore (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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