ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -noun. a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas. (often initial capital letter) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England; dissenter.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nonconformists are also called Dissenters (a word first used of the five Dissenting Brethren at the Westminster Assembly of Divines in 1643–47).

Detailed explanation-3: -Often, nonconformists have different attitudes or beliefs about society or the world than the rest of their community. Social nonconformists refuse to follow the accepted social norms of a community, including beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and perspectives.

Detailed explanation-4: -A nonconformist is someone who doesn’t conform to other people’s ideas of how things should be. Activists, artists, street performers, your wacky uncle Marvin-anyone who marches to the beat of a different drummer is a nonconformist.