Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Establishing or setting up a norm, or standard which ought to be conformed to.
- In petrography, relating to the norm; making up the norm, as distinguished from ‘normal’ in the sense of regular, usual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective relating to or dealing with norms.
- adjective (Grammar) giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to
descriptive . - adjective based on or prescribing a norm or standard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or using a
norm orstandard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or dealing with norms
- adjective pertaining to giving directives or rules
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Examples
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Epistemic standards have a strong normative dimension -- we use our standards of rationality and reasonableness to guide, evaluate, and criticize reasoning, both our own and that of others -- so here the label ˜normative™ applies in a very full-blooded sense.
Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003
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Since the discussion in Parts II and III encompasses both moral and social values, the term normative values is used.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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Since the discussion in Parts II and III encompasses both moral and social values, the term normative values is used.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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Is the term normative beauty meant to refer to Western-style patriarchal hetero-normative standards of gender theatre?
Pushing Beauty Boundaries With YouTube « Gender Across Borders 2010
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A comparison and contrast between race discrimination and net discrimination teaches us, first, to particularize the discrimination at issue, and to be wary of what I call normative carve‐outs in defining discrimination.
Archive 2007-12-09 2007
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What I find interesting about this and other viral marketing campaigns is related more to the synchronization of human behavior and the enculturation of certain normative behaviors.
Discourse.net: Privacy is More About Control than About Content 2010
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This is a mere statement of your desired result lacking in normative justification.
Faith in Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Though both Laureates have also made important contributions to the mathematical technique of linear programming, this was not what they were honored for; instead they received the Prize for enriching our understanding of basic economic issues in normative allocative theory by applying new tools of analysis.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006 2010
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It seems to me that Melanie is using the word normative in rather a strange sense, to mean normal.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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We soak up norms quicker than bread soaks up soup, particularly in normative contexts like university.
The Latest Teacup Tempest Hal Duncan 2007
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