[dredmorbius]

Normalisation of Deviance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

See Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and The Next Disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow

[cratermoon]

That's the idea. The exact formulation of the term had slipped my mind.

[dredmorbius]

Right.

Knowing the extant nomenclature is useful in researching ideas / literature further. I'm often stymied because I don't know what things are called in certain domains. Psychology seems to be especially prone to this for me.