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normie

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Etymology

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From norm +‎ -ie, or a clipping of normal +‎ -ie. Compare normalfag.

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normie (plural normies)

  1. (slang, usually derogatory) A normal person; one with commonly held, normative beliefs, neurology, tastes or interests.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer
    • 1966, 16 in Webster Groves‎[1]:
      But if you're not a socie, chances are you're a normie and you feel left out.
    • 1980, Barry Corbet, Options: spinal cord injury and the future:
      This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair.
    • 2006, Anne Katherine, How to make almost any diet work, page 200:
      You'll start eating like a normie. In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.
    • 2017, Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN, Introduction:
      The triumph of the Trumpians was also a win in the war against this mainstream media, which is now held in contempt by many average voters and the weird irony-laden Internet subcultures from right and left, who equally set themselves apart from this hated mainstream. It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch, normie or a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.
    • 2017 December 12, Despina Stratigakos, “It's Not That Hard To Avoid Normalizing Nazis”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      For an article that focused on white nationalists’ desire to appear normal to “normies,” [Richard] Fausset, inexplicably, did not delve into what it means to perform normality. Was it just by chance that Hovater revealed to a Times reporter that he is “a big Seinfeld fan”? Or that he let him into his home in the first place in order to show that he was not all that different from us “normies”?
    • 2024, Evan Prodromou, ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web:
      […] to build a new, good internet that is both enshittification-resistant and accessible to the normies we love […]
    • 2024 December 11, Ali Breland, “This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream”, in The Atlantic‎[3]:
      The UnitedHealthcare shooting marks a new moment of normie extremism.
  2. (Internet slang, usually derogatory) A person who is not a member of an ingroup, such as a fandom or other (online) community; an outsider.
  3. (slang, Alcoholics Anonymous) A nonalcoholic.
    • 2011, Bucky Sinister, Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, page 97:
      Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have.

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  • → Russian: но́рмис (nórmis)
  • → Spanish: normi

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normie (comparative more normie or normier, superlative most normie or normiest)

  1. (slang, usually derogatory) Like a normal person; mainstream, belonging to an outgroup.
    • 2016 August 25, Maria L. La Ganga, quoting anonymous 4chan poster, “Clinton slams Trump's 'racist ideology' that ushers hate groups into mainstream”, in The Guardian‎[4], →ISSN:
      “Hillary will unintentionally give us the biggest public platform we’ve ever had,” wrote one anonymous poster. “The people who will reject our ideas are already voting for Hillary. The normie conservatives, lolbertarians, etc, will be drawn into the movement in record numbers.”
    • 2017 October 12, Daniel Engber, “The Grandfather Of Alt-Science”, in fivethirtyeight.com‎[5], archived from the original on 12 October 2017:
      The split from Pauling, and the death of Laurelee, sent Robinson hurtling further out into the fringe, where he found a small but ardent caucus of contrarians: scientists, like him, who had abandoned — or been ejected from — the normie, left-leaning research community and who made common cause in puncturing prevailing views on smoking, DDT, radiation, depletion of the ozone hole and changes to the climate.
    • 2019 October 3, Poppy Noor, “How the alt-right co-opted the OK hand sign to fool the media”, in The Guardian‎[6], →ISSN:
      In the case of the Facebook “Trash Doves” sticker, for example, 4chan users noticed the cartoon go viral and sent out the rallying cry: “Let’s make this normie meme a Nazi symbol!”
    • 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker‎[7], →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 March 2025:
      On the normier part of the spectrum are liberal influencers like Dean Withers and Harry Sisson, who have transferred the “debate me, bro” spirit of early YouTube to TikTok Live.

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normie f

  1. dative/locative singular of norma
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