normality

English

Etymology

From normal +‎ -ity, perhaps modelled on French normalité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɔːˈmæl.ɪ.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ti/, [nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ɾi]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /noːˈmæl.ə.ti/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

normality (countable and uncountable, plural normalities)

1. (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.

2. (chemistry) The concentration of a solution expressed in gram equivalent weights of solute per litre of solution.
3. (countable, mathematics, statistics) A measure of how well an observed distribution approximates a normal distribution.

Synonyms

• (state of being normal): normalcy (US); see also Thesaurus:normality

Antonyms

• abnormality

Derived terms

• creeping normality

Translations

state of being normal

• Arabic: الحَالَة الطَبِيعِيَّة f (al-ḥāla(t) aṭ-ṭabīʕiyya)
• Armenian: նորմալություն (normalutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: нормалност f (normalnost)
• Catalan: normalitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正常 (zh) (zhèngcháng), 常態／常态 (zh) (chángtài), 正規／正规 (zh) (zhèngguī)

• Czech: normálnost f, normalita f
• Danish: normalitet c
• Dutch: normaliteit (nl)
• Esperanto: normaleco
• Estonian: normaalsus
• Finnish: tavallisuus (fi), tavanomaisuus (fi), normaalius (fi)
• French: normalité (fr) f
• Georgian: ნორმალობა (normaloba)
• German: Normalität (de) f
• Greek: κανονικότητα (el) f (kanonikótita, literally “regularity”), κανονικότης (el) f (kanonikótis)
• Hebrew: נורמליות f (nurmalyút)
• Hungarian: szabályszerűség (hu), természetszerűség (hu)
• Irish: normáltacht f
• Italian: normalità (it) f
• Japanese: 正常 (ja) (seijō)
• Korean: 정상 (ko) (jeongsang)
• Latvian: normālums m, normalitāte f, parastums m, parastība f
• Lithuanian: normalumas m
• Norwegian: normalitet m
• Polish: normalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: normalidade (pt) f
• Romanian: normalitate (ro) f
• Russian: норма́льность (ru) m (normálʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нормалност f

  Roman: normalnost (sh) f

• Slovak: normálnosť f
• Slovene: normalnost f
• Spanish: normalidad (es) f
• Swedish: normalitet (sv) c
• Turkish: normallik (tr)
• Ukrainian: нормальність m (normalʹnistʹ)

(chemistry) concentration of a solution

• Bulgarian: нормалност f (normalnost)
• Finnish: normaalisuus
• German: Äquivalentkonzentration f
• Latvian: normalitāte f
• Polish: normalność (pl) f
• Tagalog: kadaniwan

(mathematics) measure

• Finnish: normaalisuus, normaalijakautuneisuus
• Irish: normalacht f
• Tagalog: pagkadaniw

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} normalitate (ro) f

See also

• molarity
• molality