normalcy

Noun

1. The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
2. 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...
   • When so I ponder, here apart, / What shallow boons suffice my heart, / What dust-bound trivia capture me, / I marvel at my normalcy. - 1928, Dorothy Parker, “The Searched Soul”, in Sunset Gun, New York: Boni &...
   • The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world. - 1981,...