nonconformisms
Refusals to comply
Nonconformisms is the plural of nonconformism—the practice or principle of refusing to conform to established customs, beliefs, or standards.
The plural allows for distinguishing different varieties or instances: The nonconformisms of the 1960s counterculture took many forms, from communal living to psychedelic experimentation.
Disagreement with authority
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- devianceDeparture from accepted standards
- eccentricityUnconventional behavior or nature
individualism · bohemianism · antiestablishment · subversion · freethinking · iconoclasm · unconventionality · outsider
Disagreement with authority
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- heterodoxyUnorthodox belief or opinion
- sectarianismPrejudiced loyalty to subgroups
- schismFormal organizational fracture
Puritanism · Protestantism · separatism · apostasy · chapel · Methodist · Quaker · Baptist
Innovative cultural pioneers
- experimentalismPreference for untried approaches
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
modernism · antiart · provocative · boundary-pushing · unconventional · transgressive · underground · subversive
dissent
Disagreement with authority
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- devianceDeparture from accepted standards
eccentricity · individualism · bohemianism · antiestablishment · subversion · freethinking · iconoclasm · unconventionality · outsider · maverick
dissent
Disagreement with authority
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- heterodoxyUnorthodox belief or opinion
- sectarianismPrejudiced loyalty to subgroups
schism · Puritanism · Protestantism · separatism · apostasy · chapel · Methodist · Quaker · Baptist · disestablishment
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- experimentalismPreference for untried approaches
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
abstraction · modernism · antiart · provocative · boundary-pushing · unconventional · transgressive · underground · subversive · radical
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Compliance with prevailing standards
conformity · orthodoxies · traditionalism · conventionality · compliance
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Compliance with prevailing standards
groupthink · herd mentality · collectivism · unanimity · consensus