Informative vs. Normative — What's the Difference?

Informative is anything that further educates someone e.x.

Normative generally means relating to an evaluative standard. Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good or desirable or permissible and others as bad or undesirable or impermissible.

Serving to inform; providing or disclosing information; instructive.

Of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard

Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.

Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.

(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.

Conforming to a norm or norms.

(obsolete) Formative; having power to form.

Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.

Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance;

Relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.

Serving to instruct of enlighten or inform

Giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to descriptive.

Providing or conveying information

Based on or prescribing a norm or standard; as, normative grammar.

Relating to or dealing with norms;

Giving directives or rules;

Based on or prescribing a norm or standard;

Dealing with or based on norms;