"creeping normality" meaning in English

See creeping normality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} creeping normality (uncountable)
  1. The process where a major change that would be considered objectionable if it happened in a single step is gradually reached by a series of less noticeable smaller changes. Wikipedia link: creeping normality Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-creeping_normality-en-noun-IaB7lPps Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for creeping normality meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "creeping normality (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process where a major change that would be considered objectionable if it happened in a single step is gradually reached by a series of less noticeable smaller changes."
      ],
      "id": "en-creeping_normality-en-noun-IaB7lPps",
      "links": [
        [
          "major",
          "major"
        ],
        [
          "change",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "objectionable",
          "objectionable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "creeping normality"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "creeping normality"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "creeping normality (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process where a major change that would be considered objectionable if it happened in a single step is gradually reached by a series of less noticeable smaller changes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "major",
          "major"
        ],
        [
          "change",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "objectionable",
          "objectionable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "creeping normality"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "creeping normality"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.