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UK
/nˌɒnkənfˈɔːmɪti/
]
[ US /ˌnɑnkənˈfɔɹməti/ ]
[ US /ˌnɑnkənˈfɔɹməti/ ]
NOUN
- lack of harmony or correspondence
- failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
- a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
How To Use nonconformity In A Sentence
- Her clothes were an immediate signal of her nonconformity.
- Removing both penalties against nonconformity and rewards for conformity contributed greatly to the purity of religion.
- However, these issues didn't reach the level of "nonconformity" and therefore didn't stop the rig's recertification. Rep. Ed Markey: Oil Industry's "Island Vacations" from Regulation
- The key representatives of English Nonconformity offered various understandings of the ‘verbal inspiration’ of the Bible, but most stopped short of claiming absolute textual inerrancy.
- For all this, nonconformity proved to be more dangerous and subversive than its counterpart on the American mainland.
- A nonconformity is a boundary where stratified (layered) rock rests upon un-stratified igneous or metamorphic rock. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- A state religious court evaluating nonconformity or dissent deserves whatever answers it receives.
- And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
- He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years' time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. Notable & Quotable
- Despite his talk about nonconformity, the author is decidedly conformist.