different between easily vs normally

English

Etymology

From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?z?li/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?i?.z?.li?/, /?i?.z?.li?/

Adverb

easily (comparative easilier or more easily, superlative easiliest or most easily)

1. Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
2. Without difficulty.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
3. (colloquial, not comparable) Absolutely, without question.

Translations

Anagrams

• Yalies

Middle English

Adverb

easily

1. Alternative form of esiliche

English

Etymology

normal +? -ly

Adverb

normally (comparative more normally, superlative most normally)

1. Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time

   Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.

2. In the expected or customary manner.

   Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.

3. To a usual or customary extent or degree.

   He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.

   • 1984, Robert Charles Sproul, John Henry Gerstner, Arthur Lindsley, Classical Apologetics (?ISBN), page 178:

     An even more important reason is that our generation is not only normally ignorant but abnormally so. That is, we not only have scholars who do not know the history of the church's testimony, but we have those who tell it like it was not.

4. (mathematics, statistics) In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.

Synonyms

• (most of the time): commonly, frequently, ordinarily; see also Thesaurus:usually
• (in the expected manner): customarily, habitually, routinely; see also Thesaurus:normally
• (to a usual degree): averagely
• (mathematics):

Related terms

• normality

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