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Antonyms for norms

Grammar : Noun
Spell : nawrm
Phonetic Transcription : nɔrm

Definition of norms

Origin :
  • "standard, pattern, model," 1821, from French norme, from Latin norma "carpenter's square, rule, pattern," of unknown origin. Klein suggests a borrowing (via Etruscan) of Greek gnomon "carpenter's square." The Latin form of the word, norma, was used in English in the sense of "carpenter's square" from 1670s.
  • noun average, standard
Example sentences :
  • Unless they are rooted in our own life, these norms are like misty forms in the air.
  • Extract from : « Life's Basis and Life's Ideal » by Rudolf Eucken
  • We perceive this in the norms with which the research of the present is busily occupied.
  • Extract from : « Life's Basis and Life's Ideal » by Rudolf Eucken
  • The norms of one will not satisfy the conditions of another stage of manifestation.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Space » by Robert T. Browne
  • Production norms under the system have been low because of technological advances and the infrequency of adjustment of norms.
  • Extract from : « Area Handbook for Bulgaria » by Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
  • If he exists at all, his norms of worth may be, and probably are, very different from ours.
  • Extract from : « The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 » by Various
  • The Norms are going to start a class in basketry; who wants to join?
  • Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
  • Grace was more daring than any of the others, and kept the Norms and Miss Mackin busy shouting warnings to her.
  • Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
  • We are going to have all the Norms down, announced Miss Mackey, who had been up in the devastated region all the afternoon.
  • Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
  • Norms and potency become two indissoluble factors in the evolution of the higher life.
  • Extract from : « An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy » by W. Tudor Jones
  • We have already noticed how the presence of norms and standards were necessitated by the very theory of knowledge itself.
  • Extract from : « An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy » by W. Tudor Jones

Synonyms for norms

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