normalism

noun4

1. •
   A system of beliefs concerning how one determines what is considered normal.

   • The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism. — 2004
2. •
   A bias against the abnormal.

   • These are stories about normalism (Corbett 1994). Part of the experience of being marginalised and dominated also has to do with the way some of 'us' call 'others' (Abberley 1987). — 1997
3. •
   A tendency to consider most deviations as within the bounds of "normal".

   • Although a program of reason and moderation, normalism is not a program of compromise or opportunism. — 1914
4. •
   (no longer used) Normality; A state in which most things are normal.

   • There is very little normalism in the English language, and the attempt to reduce it to stricter rules is necessarily a failure. — 1856