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In British English normality is the usual word, and normalcy is regarded with disfavour although both words date from about the same time (mid-19th century):

The morning passed slowly, uneventfully, and with a beguiling normality—Anita Brookner, 1989.

In American English and in some other varieties, both words are used with about equal frequency:

...partly in order to tidy up, tidy the room and return it to normalcy—Anita Desai, Indian English 1988.

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noun

The quality or condition of being usual: customariness, habitualness, normalcy, ordinariness, prevalence, regularity, routineness, usualness. See usual/unusual.

n

Definition: sanity
Antonyms: insanity

Quotes:

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life." - Angie Everhart

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." - Sigmund Freud

"Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." - R. D. Laing

(in chemistry) the chemical concentration of a solution expressed as the number of equivalents (def. 4) of a specified substance (of specified equivalence factor) per litre. Use now not recommended.

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• Tools, Tests, Units, and Scales - normality: number of equivalents of a substance per liter of solution

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - normaltilstand, normale forhold

Nederlands (Dutch)
normaliteit

Français (French)
n. - normalité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Normalität

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ομαλότητα, κανονικότητα, φυσιολογικότητα

Italiano (Italian)
normalità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - normalidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
нормальное состояние

Español (Spanish)
n. - normalidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - normaltillstånd, normala förhållanden

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
常态

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 常態

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정상분포, 규정도

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 正常

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الحاله السويه, السواء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נורמליות, תקינות‬

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