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ˈnɔr mə tɪvnor·ma·tive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. normativeadjective

    relating to or dealing with norms

    "normative discipline"; "normative samples"

  2. prescriptive, normativeadjective

    pertaining to giving directives or rules

    "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

Wiktionary

  1. normativeadjective

    Of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard.

  2. Etymology: From normatif

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  1. normative

    Normative refers to establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, particularly of behavior. It implies something that is prescribed or expected by social or cultural norms, typical in a standard setting and implies a degree of evaluation, setting the 'norm' by which certain actions or behaviors are judged or measured. It is often used in philosophy, psychology, sociology and other social sciences.

Wikidata

  1. Normative

    Normative has specialized contextual meanings in several academic disciplines. Generically, it means relating to an ideal standard or model. In practice, it has strong connotations of relating to a typical standard or model.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of normative in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of normative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of normative in a Sentence

  1. Jenny Radesky:

    In many cases, these parental worries are indeed part of a normative developmental stage( such as, for example, their child waking up a few times during the night, or having problems falling asleep) but still it would be beneficial to know that, and parents could feel more relaxed ; but in other cases, these are indeed part of a developmental problem.

  2. Kristie Poole:

    It is likely that the experience of … shyness in response to a speech task is a relatively common, normative experience for children at this age, for a smaller group of temperamentally shy children, however, being the center of attention may be stressful across time and various contexts.

  3. Dan Savage:

    It makes people with normative desires feel panicked the way it used to those with other desires.

  4. Martha Nussbaum:

    The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one’s well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.

  5. Arthur Lurigio:

    If this trend continues until Labor Day, Chicago might be on its way to a year with 500 or fewer homicides, which is closer to the normative number of murders in recent history, beginning in 2004 and factoring out 2016 and 2017 as aberrations.

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