Nonconformity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nonconformity \Non*con*form"i*ty\, n.
     Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the
     neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in
     its rites and modes of worship.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nonconformity
       n 1: lack of harmony or correspondence
       2: a lack of conformity [syn: {nonconformance}] [ant: {conformity}]
       3: unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected
          standards or values
       4: failure to conform [ant: {conformity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  274 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonconformity":
     aberration, abnormality, agreement to disagree, alienage,
     alienation, alienism, ambiguity, ambivalence, anomaly, antagonism,
     antinomy, antipathy, apostasy, asymmetry, backlash, capriciousness,
     changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circuitousness,
     civil disobedience, clashing, collision, conceit, conflict,
     confutation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrast,
     counter-culture, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking,
     crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crosswiseness, crotchet,
     crotchetiness, dappleness, declination, default, deflection,
     deflexure, delinquency, departure, dereliction, deviance, deviancy,
     deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation,
     differentness, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement,
     disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity,
     discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disobedience, disorder,
     disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, disregard,
     dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence,
     dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctiveness,
     distinctness, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency,
     diversification, diversity, dottiness, dropping out, eccentricity,
     egohood, equivocality, erraticism, erraticness, excursion,
     exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, failure, far cry,
     freakishness, friction, frowardness, heresy, heterodoxy,
     heterogeneity, human factor, identity, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy,
     inaccordance, inattention, incoherence, incommensurability,
     incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance,
     inconstancy, indirection, indirectness, indiscipline,
     individualism, individuality, indocility, inequality, infraction,
     infringement, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inobservance,
     instability, insubordination, integrity, interference,
     intractability, intrusion, irreconcilability, irregularity,
     jerkiness, kick, kink, lawbreaking, lawlessness, laxity, maggot,
     mannerism, mercuriality, minority opinion, misbelief, mixture,
     motleyness, mutability, naughtiness, neglect, negligence,
     nominalism, nonadherence, nonagreement, nonassent, nonassimilation,
     noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance,
     nonconformism, nonconsent, noncooperation, nonfeasance,
     nonfulfillment, nonobedience, nonobservance, nonperformance,
     nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity,
     odds, omission, oneness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance,
     oppugnancy, otherness, oversight, oxymoron, paradox, particularism,
     particularity, passive resistance, peculiarity, personal equation,
     personal identity, personality, personship, pluralism, queerness,
     quip, quirk, quirkiness, raggedness, reaction, recalcitrance,
     recoil, recusance, recusancy, rejection, renitency, repercussion,
     repudiation, repugnance, resistance, revolt, schism, secession,
     self-contradiction, self-identity, selfhood, selfness,
     separateness, singularity, skewness, slight, soul, squint,
     strangeness, swimming upstream, transgression, transverseness,
     trick, twist, un-Scripturality, unauthenticity,
     unauthoritativeness, uncanonicalness, unconformability,
     unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, uncooperativeness,
     underground, unduteousness, undutifulness, unevenness, uniqueness,
     unlikeness, unnaturalness, unobservance, unorthodoxness,
     unorthodoxy, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsubmissiveness, vagary,
     variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety,
     variousness, versatility, violation, wavering, waywardness, whim,
     whimsicality, whimsy, willful disobedience, withdrawal