In behavior, normal means not deviating very much from the average. "Not normal" is often used in a negative sense (improper, sick, etc.). Abnormality varies greatly in how pleasant or unpleasant this is for other people; somebody may half-jokingly be called "pleasantly disturbed". Examples of "normality" are mainstream, temperance, vanilla sex, equilibrium, stability, reality, peace, health, middle way; contrast these with eccentricity, perversion, paraphilia, intersexual, disease, disability, mental illness, addiction, war, crime, fantasy, dream, hallucination, illusion. Behavior (or behaviour in Commonwealth English) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... Normality can mean Normality (chemistry) Normality (statistics) Used in the English language: Being normal. ... Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority. ... Temperance may refer to: Temperance (virtue) Temperance movement Temperance (Tarot card) Temperance (band) See also Astrud Gilberto, for the album Temperance This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Vanilla sex is a term that refers to what a society regards as standard or conventional sexual behaviour. ... Look up equilibrium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word stability has a number of technical meanings, all related to the common meaning of the word. ... Reality in everyday usage means everything that exists. ... Widely-recognized peace symbol Peace is commonly understood to mean the Other definitions include freedom from disputes, harmonious relations and the absence of mental stress or anxiety, as the meaning of the word changes with context. ... The Middle Way or Middle Path is the Buddhist philosophy expounded by Gautama Buddha. ... In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being normal. ... Perversion is a term and concept describing those types of human behavior that are perceived to be a deviation from what is considered orthodox or normal. ... In psychology and sexology, paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = besides and -philia φιλία = love) is a term that describes sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity. ... An intersexual or intersex person (or animal of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ... A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ... The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ... Mental illness is a diagnostic label applied to people whose thinking, feeling/mood, ability to relate to others and ability to work are considered abnormal in some way. ... Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behaviour regardless of its consequences. ... The only atomic weapons ever used in war - the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the United States on August 9, 1945, effectively ending World War II. The bombs over Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki immediately killed over 120,000 people. ... For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883 A girl sleeps in her bed, before reaching REM sleep. ... A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ... An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. ...

Some terms could fit in both lists, for example boredom: too much "normality" can be boring, but boredom is a kind of suffering, which can be considered "not normal". JPEG is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of doing nothing. ...

Quote: It is dangerous to be right on a subject on which the established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire. (It is dangerous not to be "normal" even if you are right).

Quote: Keep it Real! (Stop being fixated by dreams of unachievable things, focus on the reality of the present situation.)

The last of Voltaires statues by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1781). ...

See also

Daniel, a prime example of normality. Infact being more normal than Daniel could cause your heart to dissolve and flood your lungs causing a slow and painful death.

• Deviant behavior
• Neurotypical
• Norm (sociology)
• Normal for Norfolk