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• n  a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
• n  the practice of nonconformity

• To grow a beard, to be sexually brave, to take dope even to killall these are understood experiences of 'nonconformism.
• Was the decade a wacky jag of smiley faces and bell-bottoms or a daring heyday of nonconformism and creativity? You can decide this month when the two 1970s duke it out in two .
• After all, unrestricted amateur nonconformism is one of the honorable paths in American history.

• nonconformity
• nonconformance

• conformity
• conformism

Quotes

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• Tristram Hunt in Times Online
  Tristram Hunt, the British historian, said: "Bush saw the special relationship through the prism of Churchill as a war leader. But there are other traditions, of nonconformism and antiimperialism, running through Anglo-American history which...