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CIDE DICTIONARY

nonconformityn. 
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nonconformity, n.
1 a nonconformists as a body, esp. (Nonconformity) Protestants dissenting from the Anglican Church. b the principles or practice of nonconformists, esp. (Nonconformity) Protestant dissent.
2 (usu. foll. by to) failure to conform to a rule etc.
3 lack of correspondence between things.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

nonconformity

Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

Dissent

N dissent, discordance, difference diversity of opinion, nonconformity, protestantism, recusancy, schism, disaffection, secession, recantation, dissension, discontent, cavilling, protest, contradiction, noncompliance, dissentient, dissenter, non-juror, non-content, nonconformist, sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic, refusal, dissenting, negative, dissident, dissentient, unconsenting, non-content, nonjuring, protestant, recusant, unconvinced, unconverted, unavowed, unacknowledged, out of the question, discontented, unwilling, extorted, sectarian, denominational, schismatic, heterodox, intolerant, no, at variance, at issue with, under protest, Int, God forbid!, not for the world, I'll be hanged if, never tell me, your humble servant, pardon me, many men many minds, quot homines tot sententiae, tant s'en faut, il s'en faut bien, no way, by no means, count me out.


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