normalcy
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈnɔɹməlsi/
noun
Etymology: From normal + -cy. The original sense was mathematical. The broader sense was popularized in the United States by its use by President Warren G. Harding.https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normalcy
- The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
- The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
“When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy.”