Crossword Dictionary
NONCONFORMITY
nonconformity - n
lack of harmony or correspondence
unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
Synonyms
bohemianism, breach, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, negation, nonacceptance, noncompliance, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation
Examples
The extent of popular support for Evangelical Nonconformity is evident in the unique religious census of 1851 of England and Wales.
Protestant nonconformity has also been well-represented over the years.
Historians with left-of-centre outlooks preferred to research early trade unions or religious nonconformity.
Etymology
also non-conformity, "neglect or failure to conform," especially to some ecclesiastical law or requirement, 1610s, coined in English from non- + conformity. Originally of Church of England clergymen who refused to conform on certain ceremonies (see non-conformist).