normative
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɔɹ.mə.tɪv/, [ˈnɔɹ.mə.ɾɪv]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈnoː.mə.tɪv/
Adjective
normative (comparative more normative, superlative most normative)
- Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
- Conforming to a norm or norms.
- normative behaviour
- Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
- normative grammar
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ablenormative
- amatonormative
- antinormative
- binormative
- cisheteronormative
- cisnormative
- counternormative
- endonormative
- exonormative
- heteronormative
- homonormative
- internormative
- mononormative
- neuronormative
- nonnormative
- normative economics
- normative ethics
- normative forecasting
- normative grammar
- normatively
- normativeness
- normative science
- normative statement
- normative system
- normativism
- normativist
- normativity
- normativization
- normativize
- pornonormative
- queernormative
- repronormative
- transnormative
Related terms
Translations
of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard
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attempting to establish or prescribe a norm
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Noun
normative (plural normatives)
- A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.
- 1990, Czechoslovak Economic Papers, number 28, page 42:
- Most important are the so-called economic normatives. They either specify the minimal efficiency of productive resources utilization or regulate the distribution of the enterprises revenue.
References
- “normative, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
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