inconformity

English

Etymology

Compare French inconformité.

Noun

inconformity (countable and uncountable, plural inconformities)

1. Lack of conformity; inconsistency.
   • 1808, John Owen, Pneumatologia: A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit Abridged by George. Burder., page 179:

     Original sin is the habitual inconformity of our natures to the holiness of God; in actual sin is our inconformity to God and his holiness expressed in the particular commands of the law.

   • 2004, Masakazu Takahashi, Noriyoshi Mizukoshi, Kazuhiko Tsuda, “Efficient Program Verification Using Binary Trees and Program Slicing”, in Mircea Gh. Negoita, Robert J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, editor, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering, page 489:

     When they encounter the first false node and the node is in level l (1<l<n), inconformity exists between the level 1 and n nodes.

   • 2015, Wang Weiguang, Social Change in Contemporary China and the Theory of Social Contradictions, page 76:

     On the other hand, however, China's socialist reform still has long way to go in that the basic socialist economic-political system and its corresponding econoic-political system needs to be further improved; at the same time, even if the basic socialist economic-political system and its corresponding economic political system be in place, with the development of social productivity and society, new inconformity and imperfection will emerge. Therefore, the contradictions of both conformity and inconformity between socialist economic base and superstructure and between the relations of production and productivity will exist for a long time.

   • 2019, Peter Furlong, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, page 94:

     However we understand the defect, most divine determinists will likely wish to say that the relation of inconformity between act and law obtains (when it does obtain) merely in virtue of the intrinsic natures of the relata. In other words, the relation of inconformity follows merely upon the nonrelational characteristics of the relata

References

• “inconformity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.