nonconformity

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.

   “Here then is S. Pauls Judaeus in abscondito, a Jew inwardly. Here is the true Recusant, and the true Non-conformitan; Au∣diunt, sed non faciunt: he comes to hear, but never comes to doe; there's Recusancy: he confesses that he hath received good instru∣ction, but he refufes to conform himself unto it; there's Non-con∣formity'.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
3. (countable, uncountable)A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of nonconformity (“refusal to conform to a state religion”).