Definition of Normative

1. Adjective. Relating to or dealing with norms. "Normative samples"

Partainyms: Norm

2. Adjective. Pertaining to giving directives or rules. "Prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
Exact synonyms: Prescriptive
Category relationships: Grammar
Antonyms: Descriptive
Derivative terms: Prescribe

Definition of Normative

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Normative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Normative

1. Pertaining to the normal or usual. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Normative

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normative (current term)
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Literary usage of Normative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"1 it appears that the amount of normative quartz decreases as the alkalic character of the feldspars decreases, or as the calcic character increases. ..."

2. The Recognition Policy of the United States by Julius Goebel (1915)
"There are two constituent factors in the formation of all law.1 One is the normative force which is contained in the purely factual, the other the exact ..."

3. Ethics: Descriptive and Explanatory by Sidney Edward Mezes (1900)
"Ethics as a normative Science Ethics has been called a normative as distinguished from a descriptive science. And while the introductory discussion has ..."

4. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"The Relation of normative to Factual and Truth Objectivity. Evidently, after this analysis, the next question is—to what extent normative objectivity is ..."

5. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"Misunderstandings of' normative science.' Two v misunderstandings must be guarded against. First, the distinction between normative and natural, ..."

6. The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry (1905)
"THERE are three sets of problems whose general philosophical importance depends upon the The normative placc which metaphysics assigns to the ences. human ..."

7. A Manual of Ethics by John Stuart Mackenzie (1901)
"Further, there is a sense in which even purely normative sciences may be said ... Hence, the distinction between positive and normative sciences is one that ..."

8. Suggestion in Education: A Dissertation by William Arthur Clark (1900)
"As to matter and method sciences may be separated into two groups: descriptive and normative. The descriptive sciences are explanatory, dealing with that ..."

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