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nonconformity
noun as in belief, behavior different from most
Strong matches
- bohemianism
- breach
- denial
- disaffection
- disagreement
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discordance
- disobedience
- dissent
- eccentricity
- exception
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- iconoclasm
- insubordination
- lawlessness
- negation
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- objection
- opposition
- originality
- recalcitrance
- recusancy
- rejection
- strangeness
- unconventionality
- uniqueness
- unorthodoxy
- unruliness
- veto
- violation
Example Sentences
He was only a few months into his job as a custody deputy at the downtown jail in 2009 when he learned the price of nonconformity.
The filmmakers were aiming to call out the guardians of rigidity who see nonconformity as arrogance, regardless of whether it is or not.
But she stood apart in her adamant nonconformity.
For the target, as “Fellow Travelers” intuits, isn’t queerness, or racial equality, or anti-capitalism per se, but nonconformity of any sort, which power seeks to stamp out for its own preservation.
Asked about controversial decisions by some school districts that would require parents to be informed if their child showed signs of gender nonconformity, Garvey said it was a parental rights issue.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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