Nonconformist vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
nonconformist | idiosyncratic |
A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, "
As a noun nonconformist
is (christianity) a member of a protestant church which does not observe the doctrines of the established church, especially of the church of england.As an adjective idiosyncratic is
peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.nonconformist
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Noun
(en noun)See also
* Nonconformist * nonconformityidiosyncratic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic , personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles," Time , 26 April:
- British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.