nonconformity

noun non·con·for·mi·ty \ ˌnän-kən-ˈfȯr-mə-tē \

|Updated on: 14 Aug 2018

Examples: nonconformity in a Sentence

Definition of nonconformity

1 a : failure or refusal to conform to an established church

b often capitalized : the movement or principles of English Protestant dissent

c often capitalized : the body of English Nonconformists

2 : refusal to conform to an established or conventional creed, rule, or practice

3 : absence of agreement or correspondence

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Examples of nonconformity in a Sentence

As a teenager, he was embarrassed by his parents' nonconformity.
an artistic movement that doesn't tolerate nonconformity

Recent Examples of nonconformity from the Web

Under Nazi rule, the remedies for nonconformity were separation, torture and murder.

— kate tuttle, latimes.com, "Hans Asperger's complex Nazi history," 15 June 2018
That whole book is about nonconformity and about rejecting being the same.

— Fox News, "Trump slams 'disgraceful' leak of Mueller questions," 2 May 2018
Quinn's intimate riffs on that struggle find their integrity through nonconformity, through blur and torque, through sensual tumult and honest contradiction.

— leah ollman, latimes.com, "Like song sampling as painting: Nathaniel Mary Quinn's puzzle-like portraits of personhood," 6 June 2018
For some, facial feminization is seen as bolstering restrictive stereotypes while stigmatizing gender nonconformity.

— jane mayer, The New Yorker, "The Story of a Trans Woman’s Face," 12 Mar. 2018
But the medical community used other terms in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM, to pathologize gender nonconformity, including transsexualism and gender identity disorder.

— emanuella grinberg, CNN, "What is medically necessary treatment for gender-affirming health care?," 31 May 2018
Tea’s reporting from Camp Trans is the opposite of the broad and ignorant way that gender nonconformity is written about in mainstream news outlets.

— josephine livingstone, The New Republic, "The Big, Bad Truth of Michelle Tea," 16 May 2018
Accordingly, Uranian energy is defined by eccentricity, nonconformity, and extremes.

— aliza kelly faragher, Allure, "What Uranus’s Astrological Transit Into Taurus Means for Your Finances," 10 May 2018
Monáe’s muse is nonconformity, but almost more as a concept than a practice.

— spencer kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Cheerful Radicalism of Janelle Monáe," 28 Apr. 2018

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