Meanings of nonconformism in English

Vegetarians-peoplewho choose not to eat meat even when it's available-havealways been comfortable with their nonconformism.

Plenty of people felt that way, and Provincetown is a place I really associate with that kind of nonconformism.

He wants to infiltrate the suburbs through the free market, and to infect them from within, spreading beauty and nonconformism among the dumb boxes.

He credits his nonconformism ("I'm the weirdest person here," he laughs) and his self-assurance to his mum, an estate agent who had him at 18.

Neither does it gloss over Swift's hatred and intolerance of "Popery" and of Nonconformism.

Was not Nonconformism itself largely a popular protest against the harsh treatment of the poor at the hand of the established Church?