What's the difference between deviant and nonconformist?

Deviant


Definition:

  • (a.) Deviating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, not all investigators have ensured that schizophrenic subjects belong to that group which does show deviant speech structures.
  • (2) Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior.
  • (3) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
  • (4) It was assumed that a deviant stimulus can elicit a MMN only when the neuronal representation of the previous standard stimulus still exists.
  • (5) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
  • (6) Therefore, the girls in the present study might be either more psychiatrically disturbed or have more deviant personalities than the boys, which might explain why our hypothesis about a lower thrombocyte MAO activity in the adolescents with externalizing symptoms (group I) was verified only in the girls.
  • (7) Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia.
  • (8) This study was conducted to determine whether deviant-speaking children can understand their own speech productions when these productions are presented to them from an external source (tape recorder).
  • (9) We conclude that immune privilege is extended to histoincompatible developing retinal transplants placed in the AC of the eye, and that these allografts induce a deviant systemic immune response characterized by impaired expression of delayed hypersensitivity and generation of splenic suppressor cells.
  • (10) The present study examined the vigilance performance of 16 behaviorally deviant and 16 nodeviant children and suggested that the vigilance paradigm might serve as a basis for a standardized test of continuous attention in children.
  • (11) For deviant kel values of a one-compartment model, the most accurate recovery of ko occurred with the area function method and nonlinear least-squares regression, followed by the Wagner-Nelson and moment analysis methods.
  • (12) The deviant stimuli elicited in addition to N100m a second deflection, MMNm, peaking at about 200 msec.
  • (13) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
  • (14) The testosterone level in deviant males was about five times higher than that of normal displaying males.
  • (15) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
  • (16) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
  • (17) application of 1-5HTP represents a practicable strategy for investigating biochemical hypotheses as to serotonin mediated normal and deviant human behaviour, especially in affective disorders.
  • (18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
  • (19) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
  • (20) This work identified an important attitude of Nigerians namely that behaviour is controlled from outside including deviant behaviour.

Nonconformist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And many who shouted the odds about a nonconformist, anti-establishment lifestyle are now rats in the ratrace: even as a poet I seem to spend most of my time filling in forms, teaching, going to meetings, commuting – hardly the bohemian fantasy.
  • (2) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
  • (3) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
  • (4) Dr Pangloss, aka Gove, took the view that journalism was a rough sort of trade, attracting nonconformists or, to put it another way, the reckless types who might not be above hacking a phone or breaking a law or two.
  • (5) His journey through Fettes College, Oxford, the bar and high churchery had given him not one gene of old Labour nonconformist puritanism.
  • (6) Individuals who were willing to grant such rights to homosexuals as teaching in college, speaking in a local community, and removing a book from a local library written by a homosexual and favorable to homosexuality, tended to be well educated, young, Jewish or nonreligious, from urban areas, raised in the Northeast or Pacific states, and willing to provide freedom of expression to people with nonconformist political ideas.
  • (7) "R ebel rebel, you've torn your dress," observed David Bowie in 1974, setting the bar rather low for aspiring nonconformists.
  • (8) "Here's someone who's one of the most nonconformist individuals you can think of.
  • (9) For example, the nonconformist tradition Labour and the liberals inherited saw gambling as one of the worst forms of exploitation.
  • (10) Otherwise difficulties arise in road traffic from the psychiatric point of view through the nonconformist behavior of the normal citizen who apparently finds it difficult to realize the principles of self-responsibility.
  • (11) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
  • (12) We are here to remember a hero,” said Dr Usman Chaudhary, opening the service at the British Muslim Heritage Centre, a grade II* listed building in south Manchester which originally housed a seminary for nonconformist Christian ministers.
  • (13) However, parents, teachers, and institutions must display considerably more flexibility and tolerance towards individually minded persons who behave in seemingly nonconformist ways.
  • (14) Clinical and psychological examinations helped identify two basic patterns of psychic adaptation to stressful flying activities which manifested as asthenic trends and predisposition to nonconformist behaviour.
  • (15) Within months a new religion had emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of liberal, nonconformist values and fireside chats with dead people.
  • (16) Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Intense press scrutiny didn’t seem to agree with Prince, who shunned interviews and in 1985 announced his retirement from live performing.
  • (17) Even this august organ, which sprang from the loins of nonconformist dissent, astounded many readers with its broad acres of Pope reverencing.
  • (18) And today I cried at least three or four times.” Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Inside First Avenue, the mood was electric, as the roughly 1,500 fans fortunate to make it inside the ultimate Prince farewell party danced the night away, appreciating the special permit secured by the club, which allowed it to stay open until 6 or 7am on Friday.
  • (19) I'd had my rationales for this, the main one being that I hadn't wanted to impose too zealously nonconformist a lifestyle on my family.
  • (20) Neofascism is unlike its 1930s predecessor, in that today a global elite of the absurdly wealthy and influential is steering an ideology that wants a shrinking government, falling taxes on high incomes, and authoritarian control over recalcitrants, nonconformists, collective bodies and "losers" in the market society, including the disabled and young unemployed.