Nonconformity vs. Noncompliance — What's the Difference?

Refusal or failure to conform to accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws.

Failure or refusal to comply.

An instance of this

A failure to comply.

Often Nonconformity Refusal to accept or conform to the doctrines, usage, or polity of the Church of England.

Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

(Geology) An unconformity in which the underlying strata are composed of igneous or metamorphic rock and the overlying strata are composed of sedimentary rock.

The failure to obey

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.

Rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.

(geology) A type of unconformity in which a non-sedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

Lack of harmony or correspondence

A lack of conformity

Unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values

Failure to conform