reabnormalize

English

Alternative forms

  • reabnormalise

Etymology

From re- +‎ abnormalize.

Verb

reabnormalize (third-person singular simple present reabnormalizes, present participle reabnormalizing, simple past and past participle reabnormalized)

  1. (transitive) To make abnormal again.
    • 2025 September 18, Ali Martin, “Newsom takes on Trump, rising in Democratic eyes – at least for now”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎[1], Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 September 2025:
      [California G]overnor [Gavin Newsom], says Dr. [Steven] Fish[, political science professor at the University of California at Berkeley], is changing how people view [U.S.] president [Donald Trump]’s style, which at first seemed “absurd … but then people got used to it. What Newsom is doing is re-abnormalizing those things.”

Derived terms

  • reabnormalize

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