Definition of "nonconformity" []

• Refusal or failure to conform to accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws. (noun)
• An instance of this: a measure aimed at reducing nonconformities to the housing code. (noun)
• Refusal to accept or conform to the doctrines, usage, or polity of the Church of England. (noun)

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• "We are truly experiencing a difficult period, but what you refer to as nonconformity affects only a portion of the people who are discontented."
• "The pride he talks about swallowing appears to be a common atheist pride in nonconformity, which doesn't go well with an activist movement of any sort."
• "Comprehending queer codes, exulting in nonconformity, expressing gender deviance, confronting assimilation, having to "pass": write about the theory of your life."