normcore

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English[edit]

WOTD – 16 December 2022

Etymology[edit]

A woman and a man dressed in normcore (sense 1) clothes.

From norm(al) (“according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern”) +‎ -core (suffix denoting genres of music and subcultures (often specialized and underground)),[1][2] coined by the cartoonist Ryan Estrada in a guest comic strip for the webcomic Templar, Arizona on 17 September 2008:[2][3] see the quotation.

It was popularized in a stylized, tongue-in-cheek trend report produced by the collective K-HOLE in 2013.[4][5]

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Noun[edit]

normcore (uncountable)

  1. (fashion) A unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing. [from 2008]
    • [2008 September 17, Ryan Estrada, “Ryan Estrada Day: Templar, Arizona”, in Templar, Arizona‎[4], archived from the original on 2015-09-05:
      That means he's normcore. Dangerously regular. Dresses only in T-shirts an' jeans, uses slang appropriated from other sub cultures, but only 3 years after it's[sic – meaning its] first use, an' only after it's been used in a sitcom.]
    • 2014, Harper Lin, chapter 3, in Croissant Murder (A Patisserie Mystery with Recipes; book 5), Kingston, Ont.: Harper Lin Books, →ISBN:
      Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing. She had to admit that she still found him attractive.
    • 2014 April 7, Simon Doonan, “Beware of Normcore”, in Slate‎[5], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-12:
      Normcore is gray sweatpants pretending to be trousers. Normcore is a seen-better-days faun-colored golf knit. Normcore is an unlogo'd sneaker. Normcore is the opposite of wearing a pair of white patent-leather bejeweled Versace assless chaps. Normcore is oblivious to Givenchy shaved-beaver man purses. Normcore knows nothing of fluorescent-studded Louboutin sneakers.
    • 2015 August, Joss Whedon, “Foreword”, in Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page x:
      Another part of her gift is that she's damn funny. Even if she'd come from the heart of normcore, her tale would be worth telling and well told. But she was raised in Crazytown, and the more foreign her territory, the more delightful—and somehow more relatable—her tale becomes.
  2. (by extension, attributively) Any style that is mainstream or unremarkable.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “normcore, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, Charles E. Carlson (2015 May) “Among the New Words”, in American Speech‎[1], volume 90, number 2, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 216–218.
  3. ^ Kosalan Kathiramalanthan (2019 November 26) “On the Origins of ‘Normcore’”, in The Eyeopener‎[2], Toronto, Ont.: Rye Eye Publishing for the Toronto Metropolitan University, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 August 2022.
  4. ^ K-HOLE, Box 1824 (2013) “Youth Mode: A Report On Freedom”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[3]: “Normcore moves away from a coolness that relies on difference to a post-authenticity coolness that opts in to sameness.”
  5. ^ Alex Williams (2014 April 2) “The New Normal”, in The New York Times

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French[edit]

Noun[edit]

normcore m (plural normcores)

  1. normcore

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English normcore.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

normcore m inan

  1. (fashion) normcore (unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing)

Declension[edit]

Declension of normcore
singular
nominative normcore
genitive normcore'u
dative normcore'owi
accusative normcore
instrumental normcore'em
locative normcorze
vocative normcorze

Noun[edit]

normcore m pers

  1. (fashion, by extension) man who dresses in normcore style
    Synonyms: normals, normcorowiec

Declension[edit]

Declension of normcore
singular plural
nominative normcore normcore'owie/normcorzy
genitive normcore'a normcore'ów
dative normcore'owi normcore'om
accusative normcore'a normcore'ów
instrumental normcore'em normcore'ami
locative normcorze normcore'ach
vocative normcorze normcore'owie/normcorzy

Further reading[edit]

  • normcore in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • normcore in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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