NONOBSERVANCE Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

nonobservance

noun

Definition of nonobservance

as in disregard

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Recent Examples of nonobservance The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in that case recognized the continued existence of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s reservation in Oklahoma after roughly a century of nonobservance by state and federal officials. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 May 2021

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonobservance

Noun

The disregard for women’s sports is not a new struggle for anyone who has followed or fought for women’s sports before.

— Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The current charge against Comey, in short, relies on a tendentious interpretation of an innocuous term combined with a disregard for the First Amendment in order to gin up charges against a man Trump has been targeting openly for nearly a decade.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Definition of disregard

Noun

Strategic ignoring begins with recognizing that attention is not an unlimited asset, but a leadership resource.

— Nick Leighton, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Addressing Modern Behavior Patterns Verification tools such as these address behavior patterns such as preemptive ignoring, digital curiosity, and selective responsiveness, all of which have become more common in recent years.

— Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026

Definition of ignoring

Noun

While Platner and his men fought in Fallujah, a wave of public forgetting was already under way.

— Jasper Craven, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of forgetting

Noun

Instead, she was charged with one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty and one misdemeanor count of confinement of animals without sufficient exercise.

— Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Her office also moved to dismiss at least one of the other three misdemeanor cases that had been brought in connection with the Reflecting Pool.

— Ryan J. Reilly, NBC news, 31 July 2026

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