norms
- 1Plural of norm.
Social norms vary widely from one culture to another.
The committee challenged long-standing norms about workplace dress.
Note
A regular plural that reaches into several fields at once. In everyday and social-science writing, norms are either what is typical or the rules a community enforces. That is the gap between what people do and what they are expected to do, a distinction sociologists draw sharply. Logicians speak of norms as commands, permissions and prohibitions. Mathematicians use the plural for functions on vectors that satisfy the triangle inequality.
norms is a form of norm
norm, noun: A rule imposed by regulations, or enforced socially by the members of a community. Full entry
- Forms
- normnorms plural
- Spelling
- norm → norms: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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