mance; immaturity, incompleteness, imperfection, imperfectness, faultiness; deficiency, Inf. fizzle, Inf. dud, failure; remissness, shortcoming, neglect, negligence, omission, default.
noncompliance, n. 1. nonconformity, nonconformance, nonconventionality, unconventionality; originality, uniqueness; informality, Bohemianism, Inf. hippiness; unorthodoxy, sectarianism, secularism, heresy, misbelief, iconoclasm, atheism.
2. dissent, dissidence, nonassent, nonconcurrence, noncooperation; nonagreement, disagreement, difference, difference of opinion; refusal of assent, recusancy, disaffection, dissension, discordance; protest, protestation, civil disobedience; objection, remonstrance, challenge, rejection.
3. nonobservance, unobservance, nonperformance; disregard, disregarding, failure, omission, default, evasion, avoidance; elusion, shunning, Inf. runaround, dodge.
4. refusal, refusing, declining, declination, declension; rejection, denial, negation; abnegation, disclamation, disclaimer.
5. disobedience, unruliness, insubordination, contumacy, obstinacy; infraction, infringement, violation, breach; trespass, transgression; resistance, revolt, in-surgence, insurrection, rebellion, mutiny, mutinousness; outbreak, uprising, sedition, treason.
noncompliant, adj. 1. nonconforming, unconventional, original, unique; informal, Inf. hippie, Bohemian; unorthodox, sectarian, secular, heretic, heretical, misbelieving, iconoclastic, atheistic.
2. disobediant, insubordinate, nonsubmissive; unruly, wanton, ungovernable, obstinate; resistive, revolting, insurgent, rebellious; mutinous, seditious, treasonous.
3. dissenting, dissident, nonassenting, nonconcurring, noncooperating, nonagreeing, disagreeing, differing; disaffected, protesting, objecting, remonstrating, challenging, rejective.
4. nonobservant, unobservant, disregardful; defaulting, evasive, elusive, nonproducing.
noncomformist, n. 1. misfit, maverick, dropout, loner, lone wolf, solitary, solitary man, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole; deviator, radical, Chiefly Brit, punk; deviate, deviant, anomaly, abnormality; freak, hippie, yippie, longhair, flower child, Jesus freak, Bohemian, beatnik; crackpot, crank, flake; All Sl. weirdo, weirdy, oddball, screwball, nut, loony, looner, dingbat, ding-a-ling; eccentric, character, card, case, pip, sport, original, one of a kind, exception, individual, rare bird, queer duck, queer potato; curiosity, rarity, peculiarity; party pooper, wallflower, dud, Inf. stick-in-the-mud, Sl. pill, Sl. drag, SI. bummer.
2. protestant, protester, sectary, recusant; dissenter, dissentient, nonjuror, mugwump, malcontent, noncontent; reversion, reversionist, recidivist, heretic, heterodox; schismatist, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, se-ditionist, separatist; apostate, recreant, backslider, renegade, lost soul, lost sheep, fallen angel; atheist, agnostic, unbeliever, nonbeliever, antichrist, antichris-tian, infidel.
nonconformity, n. 1. nonconformance, discon-formity, discord, discordance, disagreement, nonagreement; dissent, dissension, nonassent, dissidence, dissentience, recusance, recusancy, protest, opposition.