0 the quality of living and thinking in a way that is different from other people:
1 the condition of not acting or not thinking like other people, esp. in relation to religion:
In all of his actions, we see a person of vigorous independence and nonconformity who relentlessly questioned conventional thinking.
Hatred of nonconformity was not confined just to totalitarian countries.
Nonconformity in the workplace can be read as a negative characteristic.
Not until the Methodists came did Doncaster turn to Nonconformity.
Throughout the nineteenth century nonconformity grew and literacy flourished in the resultant chapel-based communities.