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non·con·form·ity (-kən fôrm′ə tē)

noun

  1. failure or refusal to act in conformity with generally accepted beliefs and practices
  2. refusal to accept the doctrines or follow the practices of the Anglican Church
  3. lack of agreement or harmony

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nonconformity Synonyms

nonconformity

n.

dissent, opposition, contumaciousness, lawlessness, transgressiveness, heresy, heterodoxy, recusance, violation, breach of custom, denial, unorthodoxy, iconoclasm, uniqueness, strangeness, disobedience, unruliness, mutinousness, insubordination, recalcitrance, noncompliance, unconventionality, originality, Bohemianism, disagreement, recusancy, contumacy, obstinacy, refusal, refusing, nonagreement, disaffection, discordance, disapproval, nonconsent, rejection, nonacceptance, negation, disapprobation, opposition, objection, exception, veto, nonobservance; see also individuality 1.


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nonconformity Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • Protestant: Protestant nonconformity has also been well-represented over the years.
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   To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)

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