nonobservance
- noun
- /ˌnɒnəbˈzɜːrvəns/
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incumplimiento
- The nonobservance of traffic laws can lead to dangerous accidents.
Examples
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Cultivators interpreted these incidents as divine and ancestral punishment for nonobservance of taboo days (Courrier de Madagascar 1968).
Academic text (1994) -
Carrying out, or even witnessing, deliberate nonobservance of international norms, whatever the justification, likely erodes identification with those norms, deteriorating whatever compliance effect their internalization had brought about.
Academic text (2017) -
As for the nonobservance of the Chinese constitution, one must remember that the situation in Hong Kong is quite different from that in China proper.
Academic text (1999) -
Individuals who have socially unconventional behavior, e.g., drinking alcohol, premarital sexual practices, or the nonobservance of public rules for the fasting month may be taken to psychiatrists by their family elders in some Gulf communities for assessment of their mental state.
Academic text (2003) -
Due to the nonobservance of company policies, several employees received warnings.
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The teacher emphasized that nonobservance of classroom rules would result in consequences.
Synonyms
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4.1
Breaking a law, rule, agreement, or someone's rights
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4.2
Refusing to obey rules or people in charge
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7.7
Failure to follow a rule, order, or request
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8.9
An action that breaks a law or rule
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7.7
Not following accepted social and religious rules
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8.6
Not following a rule, instruction, or prescribed medicine
The failure to obey a rule or law
Failure to follow accepted rules, standards, or requirements
Antonyms
How Compliant
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2.6
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5.0
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7.7
- Formal
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4.5
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonobservance = observance (transparent) = non + observe + ance
The word is formed by adding the negating prefix 'non-' to 'observance' (compliance), so the meaning 'failure to comply' is a direct negative of the base.
Etymology
The word nonobservance comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and observance, from observe meaning 'to watch' or 'to follow', as in 'to observe a rule'. So, nonobservance means not following or keeping a law, custom, or rule.