Other Words from normative

normatively adverb

normativeness noun

Thus the normativeness of truth is preserved, along with its transcendence of what is presently assertible … — Colin McGinn

normativity \ ˌnȯr-mə-ˈti-və-tē

\ noun, plural normativities

In our world of shifting gender normativity and embrace of non-traditional expression, the beauty world is reaching out to men—both with products that fit into masculine grooming routines, and ones that break all barriers. — Samuel Hine … notes that speaking up about being abused or assaulted is an opportunity to challenge the normativity of sexual violence. — Leslie Sarinana

Examples of normative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For example, product-makers intentionally use pink or purple materials or infuse packaging, with sweet or flowery scents to appease gender-normative marketing strategies. — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 July 2022 Too often, also, housing cost burden, the amount of money a household is pays over the normative 30% of monthly income ends up becoming the number of units needed in a community. — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 July 2022 One of the requisites of effective satire is that there has to be a kind of normative baseline from which things go awry. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022 The right wants to assert control over an array of non-normative sexualities, family units, and ways of being in the world. — Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022 Two types of conformity are especially prevalent in the workplace: informational and normative. — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 June 2022 There was always a normative element, in a way, to the post-1990 German-Russia relationship that rested on the assumption of peace and economic independence. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 May 2022 Their attraction passionately disrupts notions of race, gender, class, physical ability, and normative culture, elevating to true love that surpasses difference. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 19 May 2022 Plevris added that Greece also plans to ban surgeries on intersex infants and babies born with atypical chromosomes that affect their reproductive anatomy in a way that does not fit with the normative definition of male or female. — Reuters, NBC News, 12 May 2022 See More

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