different between normally vs nominally

English

normal +? -ly

normally (comparative more normally, superlative most normally)

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.
In the expected or customary manner.
Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.
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.
(mathematics, statistics) In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.

(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):

nominal +? -ly

nominally (not comparable)

In a nominal manner; in name only.
slightly
As a noun.
- 2013, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic
  In Mauritanian Hassaniya, forms like lil-i can function nominally ('mine'), and accordingly have FeSg and Pl variants (lil-t-i, lwaayl-i), see DHF l.lxxv.
- 2013, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts
  In the first phase, the grasp of an abstraction, the concept 'size' does not function nominally, rather it provides a way of thinking the quality of something.

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