Definition of Nonconformism

1. Noun. A lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs.

Exact synonyms: Nonconformance, Nonconformity
Generic synonyms: Heresy, Heterodoxy, Unorthodoxy
Antonyms: Conformism, Conformity
Derivative terms: Nonconformist

2. Noun. The practice of nonconformity.
Generic synonyms: Pattern, Practice

Definition of Nonconformism

1. Noun. The refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws. ¹

2. Noun. (often initial capital letter) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England; dissenter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonconformism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconformism

nonconfirmatory
nonconfirmed
nonconflicted
nonconflicting
nonconfluence
nonconfluent
nonconform
nonconformal
nonconformally
nonconformance
nonconformances
nonconformed
nonconformer
nonconformers
nonconforming
nonconformism (current term)
nonconformisms
nonconformist
nonconformist register
nonconformist registers
nonconformists
nonconformities
nonconformity
nonconforms
nonconfrontation
nonconfrontational
nonconfrontationally
nonconfused
noncongealing

Literary usage of Nonconformism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold Stearns (1922)
"What our average American student should acquire above all is a stout faith in the virtues of reasoned nonconformism, and in this phrase adjective and noun ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"But with the growth of mind a certain degree of nonconformism naturally arose. The obstacles to the satisfaction of desire (opposition) bred discontent and ..."

3. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1920)
"... the radical temperament bred by an austere mode of life, and the strength of nonconformism.2 1 It is true that certain great northern cities — Liverpool ..."

4. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"Was not nonconformism itself largely a popular protest against the harsh treatment of the poor at the hand of the Established Church ? ..."

5. The Latvians: A Short History by Andrejs Plakans (1995)
"... try to block and perhaps reverse this relentless Russification of Latvian life (see table 3). Spearheading this nonconformism in the party was Eduards ..."

6. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1892)
"So deeply did this Puritan spirit possess these " reformers," that within less than a century episcopacy went out of date, and nonconformism became the ..."

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