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Definition of Nonnormative
1. Adjective. Not based on a norm.
Definition of Nonnormative
1. Adjective. Not normative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonnormative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonnormative
Literary usage of Nonnormative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"Prevention efforts should portray tobacco use as a behavior that is nonnormative,
unattractive, addictive, and immature. Although the meanings of tobacco ..."
2. Community-based Interventions For Smokers: The Commit Field Experience by Beti Thompson, David M. Burns, William R. Lynn, Donald Shopland (2004)
"... COMMIT wished to create a social environment in the intervention communities
where smoking was nonnormative. Despite these ambitious goals, ..."
3. Prevention of Mental Disorders, Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Children and edited by David Shaffer (1996)
"A nonnormative event for which society may or may not be prepared is one in which
the parent seeks professional help for a deviant child. ..."
4. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Aaron Betsky, Ghent Urban Studies Team (2002)
"... self engaging in a multiplicity of "bad," "abnormal," "unnatural" - that is,
variously stigmatized, nonnormative - kinds of sex: homosexual, unmarried, ..."
5. Initiative: Human Agency and Society by Tibor R. Machan (2000)
"FA Hayek developed such a nonnormative case, as did others such as Milton Friedman,
Ludwig von Mises, and George Stigler. Although these theorists differ ..."
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