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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nonconformity \Non*con*form"i*ty\, noun 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nonconformity
noun
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
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