Nonconformity

Quick meaning: Nonconformity is a noun meaning A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.

Meaning

A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.

More Meanings

1. (geology) A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
2. A 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.

Example Sentences

Here then is S. Pauls Judaeus in abscondito, a Jew inwardly. Here is the true Recusant, and the true Non-conformitan; Au∣diunt, sed non faciunt: he comes to hear, but never comes to doe; there's Recusancy: he confesses that he hath received good instru∣ction, but he refufes to conform himself unto it; there's Non-con∣formity'.

Word Forms

• nonconformities
• Non-conformity
• non-conformity

Synonyms for nonconformity

Depending on context, synonyms include dissent, dissentism, inconformity, nonconformism, nonconformitancy, disconformity.

Antonyms for nonconformity

Common opposites include conformity, compliance, abidance, conformism, conformation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonconformance, noncompliance, non-compliance, non-conformity, nonconformist, nonconformitan.

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