SG Heritage Dictionary

Normal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle.

2. According to a rule or principle.

3. Relating to rudiments or elements; teaching rudiments or first principles; as normal schools in France.

Normal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.

2. According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.

3. Standard; original; exact; typical.

4. Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.

5. Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.

6. Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.

7. Any perpendicular.

8. A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.

Normalcy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.

Normalization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Reduction to a standard or normal state.

Normally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a normal manner.

Intrinsicality Roget’s Thesaurus §5

N. intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics

V. be in the blood, run in the blood, be born so, be intrinsic

Adj. derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite|, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite|, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, (indicative) 550, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed

Adv. intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly

Phr. "character is higher than intellect", "come give us a taste of your quality" magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, "vital spark of heavenly flame", external conditions

Normality Roget’s Thesaurus §80

N. normality, normalcy, normalness, # familiarity, naturalness, commonness (frequency) 136, rule, standard (conformity) 82, customary (habit) 613, standard, pattern (prototype) 22

V. normalize, standardize

Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional, common, usual (frequency) 136

Conformity Roget’s Thesaurus §82

N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance, observance, habituation, naturalization, conventionality, agreement, example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation, exemplification, illustration, case in point, object lesson, elucidation, standard, model, pattern, rule, nature, principle, law, order of things, normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition, standing dish, standing order, procrustean law, law of the medes and persians, hard and fast rule

V. conform to, conform to rule, accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to, rub off corners, be regular, move in a groove, follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents, comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with, be guided by, be regulated by, fall into a custom, fall into a usage, follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups, stand on ceremony, when in rome do as the romans do, go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind, stick to the beaten track, keep one in countenance, exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case, produce an instance, elucidate, explain

Adj. conformable to rule, regular, according to regulation, according to rule, according to hoyle, according to cocker, according to gunter, en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly, symmetric, conventional, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, in the natural order of things, ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday, in the order of the day, naturalized, typical, normal, nominal, formal, canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, procrustean, secundum artem, shipshape, technical, exemple, illustrative, in point

Adv. conformably, by rule, agreeably to, in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with, according to, consistently with, as usual, ad instar, instar omnium, more solito, more-majorum, for the sake of conformity, as a matter of course, of course, pro forma, for form's sake, by the card, invariably, &c. (uniformly) 16, for example, exempli gratia, e, g, inter alia, among other things, for instance

Phr. cela va sans dire, ex pede herculem, noscitur a sociis, ne e quovis ligno mercurius fiat, "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations", "the nail that sticks up will get hammered down", "stick your neck out and it may get cut off."

Verticality Roget’s Thesaurus §212

N. verticality, erectness, # perpendicularity, right angle, normal, azimuth circle, wall, precipice, cliff, elevation, erection, square, plumb line, plummet

V. be vertical, stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright, stick up, cock up, render vertical, set up, stick up, raise up, cock up, erect, rear, raise on its legs

Adj. vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright, rampant, standing up, rectangular, orthogonal

Adv. vertically, up, on end, up on end, right on end, a plomb, endwise, one one's legs, at right angles

Expectance Roget’s Thesaurus §871

N. expectance &c. # (expectation) 507, example, instance (conformity) 82, normality (habit) 613 nine days' wonder

V. expect, not be surprised, not wonder, nil admirari, make nothing of

Adj. expecting, unamazed, astonished at nothing, blase, expected, foreseen, unsurprising, common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual

Adv. naturally, as a matter of course

Int. no wonder, of course