'normativeness' originates from English, specifically formed from the adjective 'normative' + the noun-forming suffix '-ness'. 'normative' ultimately comes from Latin 'norma', where 'norma' meant 'a carpenter's square' or 'rule'.

'norma' passed into Old French as 'norme' and into Middle English as 'norm'/'normative'; the Latin-derived adjectival suffix '-ative' produced 'normative' in Modern English, and English later formed the noun 'normativeness' by adding '-ness'.

Initially, 'norma' referred to a tool (a carpenter's square) and by extension a rule or standard; over time this developed into the abstract sense of 'standard, rule', and 'normativeness' now denotes the property of being a norm or having prescriptive force.