It is to them, particularly when mental normality has progressed up to the eighth, tenth or twelfth year and stopped, that the term "moron" has been applied.

Harmonious equilibrium, or normality, continues.

When there is a conflict between two or more instincts, between pressures of energy flowing in different directions, there may be compromise and normality, or a grinding of the gears and abnormality.

It is among the specimens of normality of the brain cells that we may look for our examples of endocrine mental deficiency.

Concepts like Fate, Predestination, an all-guiding and all-wise Providence, relieved and shielded the adrenals, and acted as valuable adjuvants for the preservation of normality.

For normality means harmony, the harmonious equilibrium between the hormones, which tends to continue itself, because it does no harm to itself.

"You have seemed to me to be an excellently normal young person, but no doubt the shock and trouble of late events have done much to disturb your normality.

Normality N. normality, normalcy, normalness^; familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82; customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.

Frequency N. frequency, oftness^, oftenness^, commonness; repetition &c 104; normality &c 80; example (conformity) 82; routine, custom (habit) 613. regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality &c (exactness) 494; even tenor; system; routine &c (custom) 613; formula; rule &c (form regulation) 697; keynote, standard, model; precedent &c (prototype) 22; conformity &c 82.

507. example, instance (conformity) 82. normality (habit) 613.

In the French towns we saw how bravely they strove to carry on their common affairs of life, which were so sadly shaken and distorted out of all normality by the earthquake of war.

Little by little, normality was returning, but he had to work at it.

If these men lose their faith in their own business, they not only lose their usefulness as pushers and managers, but they become drags on the industry, and remain so until restored to normality.

" When Don Pedro returned, the house recovered its normality of a quiet and well-regulated clock.

It was no doubt upon the gradual, but sure improvement in my physical condition that the doctors were relying for my eventual return to normality.

It was now (November) that the curve representing my return to normality should have been continuous and diminishing.

Though my artistic ambition was clearly an outgrowth of my abnormal condition, and languished when normality asserted itself, I am inclined to believe I should even now take a lively interest in the study of art if I were so situated as to be deprived of a free choice of my activities.

It was the unanimity of sane opinions that helped me to correct my own views; and I am confident that each talk with relatives and friends hastened my return to normality.

Contact with sane people, if not too long postponed, means an almost immediate restoration to normality.

He was an efficient clerk; the buttons who opened the room door, a goose-stepping, alert sprout of German militarism, exhibiting a punctiliousness of attention which produced a further effect of normality.

It gave work to them; it helped the shops to keep open and make a show of normality.

In their effort at normality they had accomplished more than they realized; for one-sixth of the wealth of France was in German hands.

Defectiveness is a recessive factor; normality a dominant one.

Delsarte, in order to avoid confusion between the word state applied to primordial modalitieswhich he defines as sensitive, moral and intellectual states,often uses the word element in place of that of state in speaking of concentration, eccentration and normality, which, in this case, he also calls calm; but, in teaching, he was always accustomed to use these more exact terms: normal state, concentric state, eccentric state.

Some degree of normality seemed to come back into Sylvia's life with her return to Blue Hill Farm.