Normality is the state of things being as they usually are. A return to normality, some normality, the old normality.
It is nearly always spoken of in its absence, since nobody mentions normality until it has gone. Americans say normalcy, a form that was mocked when a president used it in 1920 and is now perfectly standard there.
1nounnormalityThe state of things being as they usually are.
“After the earthquake, it took months for life to return to normality.”
normality is a state.
From normal plus -ity, from Latin norma, a carpenter's square, hence a rule.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵneh₃-
French
normalité
English, today
normality
From normal + ity, perhaps modelled on French normalité.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA