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normie

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English

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Etymology

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Fromnorm+‎-ie,or aclippingofnormal+‎-ie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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normie(pluralnormies)

  1. (slang,usuallyderogatory,sometimesInternet)Anormalperson; one withcommonlyheld,normativebeliefs,neurology,tastesorinterests.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:mainstreamer
    • 1980,Barry Corbet,Options: spinal cord injury and the future:
      This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for anormiefeeling awkward around a wheelchair.
    • 2006,Anne Katherine,How to make almost any diet work,page200:
      You'll start eating like anormie.In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.
    • 2011,Bucky Sinister,Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober,page97:
      Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that thenormiesdon't have.
    • 2017,Angela Nagle,Kill All Normies,Zero Books,→ISBN,Introduction:
      It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch,normieor a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.
  2. (slang,usuallyderogatory,sometimesInternet)A person who is not amemberof aningroup,such as afandomor other (online)community;AnOutsider
  3. (slang,Alcoholics Anonymous)Anonalcoholic.

Adjective

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normie(comparativemorenormie,superlativemostnormie)

  1. (slang,usuallyderogatory)Like a normal person.
    • 2017,"The Grandfather Of Alt-Science" by Daniel Engber, fivethirtyeight.com
      The split from Pauling, and the death of Laurelee, sent Robinson hurtling further out into the fringe, where he found a small but ardent caucus of contrarians: scientists, like him, who had abandoned — or been ejected from — thenormie,left-leaning research community and who made common cause in puncturing prevailing views on smoking, DDT, radiation, depletion of the ozone hole and changes to the climate.

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