Definitions for normative

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normative nor·ma·tive

Spelling: [nawr-muh-tiv]

IPA: /ˈnɔr mə tɪv/

Normative is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 705 anagrams from letters in normative (aeimnortv).

Definitions for normative

adjective

1. of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
2. tending or attempting to establish such a norm, especially by the prescription of rules:
3. reflecting the assumption of such a norm or favoring its establishment:

Origin of normative

First recorded in 1875-80; norm + -ative

Examples for normative

But we must learn how intimately to combine the empirical and psychological with the critical and normative.

The normal is the original, and the original is the normative.

And, if we go back to the Politics of Aristotle, we find the normative or regulative aim still more prominent.

Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.

It is in thinking that the normative principles of thought emerge.

“We are crushing it on the normative front,” the ever-blunt Ambassador Power declared.

One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative "he" after "Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after "afire."

So too it is in prayer that the normative principles of prayer emerge; yet men require teaching how to pray.

Thus even in Ethics there is now perceptible in some quarters a tendency to repudiate the normative standpoint.

The art-bearings of the science are given in the normative character of its subject-matter.