normative
/'nɔ:mətiv/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Pertaining to establishing or prescribing norms, standards, or rules: Describes something that sets or relates to an authoritative standard of correctness or behavior.
- Based on or prescribing what is considered normal, typical, or desirable: Refers to ideas or judgments about how things should be, rather than simply describing how they are.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The professor's approach to ethics is highly normative, focusing on how people ought to behave.
- Linguistics can be descriptive, analyzing how language is used, or normative, prescribing how it should be used.
- The study provided normative data for child development, showing typical milestones.
Advanced Usage
- "Normative framework": A system of principles or standards used to guide judgment or action.
- The legal system operates within a specific normative framework.
- "Normative influence": Social pressure to conform to the expectations of a group.
- The decision was affected more by normative influence than by factual evidence.
Variants and Related Words
- Norm (n): A standard, rule, or pattern of behavior.
- Social norms vary between cultures.
- Normativity (n): The characteristic of being normative; the quality of prescribing or implying a norm.
- The normativity of the statement was clear; it told us what we should do.
Synonyms
- Prescriptive: Giving rules or directions.
- Standardizing: Establishing a standard.
- Regulative: Serving to regulate or control.
Related Phrases
- Normative statement: A statement that expresses a value judgment about what ought to be.
- "Everyone should have access to healthcare" is a normative statement.
- Normative science: A field of inquiry that attempts to derive what ought to be from what is, such as ethics or aesthetics.
Adjective
- pertaining to giving directives or rules
- prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage
- relating to or dealing with norms
- normative discipline
- normative samples