a deficiency in characteristic, documentation or procedure that renders the quality of a product or service unacceptable, indeterminate or not according to specified requirements Examples of nonconformity are: physical defects, test failures, inadequate documentation, deviations from prescribed processing or from any other part of the program
Nonconformity is behaviour or thinking which is different from that of most people. You're deliberately unconventional. Even your choice of clothes is a statement of your non-conformity Lovelock's principled nonconformity can be traced to his childhood
the nonfulfillment of a specified requirement (see also blemish, defect, and imperfection)
failure to conform unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values a lack of conformity lack of harmony or correspondence
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