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Noun: negentropy
  1. A measure of information or distance from a normal distribution; the difference between the entropy of a distribution and the entropy of a normal distribution with the same mean and variance
    "The researcher calculated the negentropy to quantify the non-Gaussianity of the signal"

Derived forms: negentropies

Encyclopedia: Negentropy