nonconformity

Meanings

Plural: nonconformities

Noun

• lack of harmony or correspondence
• a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
• unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
• failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
• Refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
• Rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
• A type of unconformity in which a non-sedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.

Synonyms

disconformity, dissent, dissentism, inconformity, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformitancy

Antonyms

conformism, conformity

Related Words

alternativism, disconformity, Dissenterage, Dissenterism, nonconformism, nonconformist, recusancy, unconformity