nonconformity
non kuhn fawr muh tee
- n lack of harmony or correspondence
- n a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- n unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- n failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
- A crackdown on nonconformity The critique of the Communist Party's role in East German industry was tough and trenchant.
- Many things make people think artists are weird--the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes.
- He needs someone among the students to resist his overbearing but yet rather theatrically conventional nonconformity.