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normalcy

[ nawr-muhl-see ]

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality:

    After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.



normalcy

  1. A word used by President Warren Harding to describe the calm political and social order to which he wished to return the United States after the idealism and commotion of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson .
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Notes

Normalcy has been used as a general term for the political climate in the United States in the early 1920s.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of normalcy1

First recorded in 1855–60; normal + -cy
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But uncertainty and apprehension loom large in Pahalgam and it could take several years before a sense of normalcy is restored, local business owners and residents told the BBC.

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On Sunday, Modi repeated his promise to get justice to families of those killed in the attack, saying it was meant to disrupt the normalcy the region was returning to after years of violence.

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“It’s like a normalcy in my life,” Sullivan said.

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UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, wrote on X that the strike "generated panic and fear of renewed violence among those desperate for a return to normalcy".

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They are the new frontier of America, a strange return to some recognizable normalcy after years of being inundated with nothing but Kardashian clout-chasing.

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