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Normative   Listen
adjective
normative  adj.  
1.
Relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.
2.
(Grammar) Giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to descriptive.
Synonyms: prescriptive.
3.
Based on or prescribing a norm or standard; as, normative grammar.





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"Normative" Quotes from Famous Books



... community, are thus ambiguous. They have both a eulogistic or normative sense, and a descriptive sense; a meaning de jure and a meaning de facto. In social philosophy, the former connotation is almost always uppermost. Society is conceived as one by its very nature. The qualities which ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey


Words linked to "Normative" :   prescriptive, norm


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