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Wearing the costume marked 'no costume' and insisting it's not one.
means The refusal to follow accepted beliefs, customs, or practices that the people around you take for granted.
from Built from 'conform' — Latin conformare, 'to shape with' (com- 'together' + formare 'to form, shape') — plus the negating 'non-'. It entered English carrying a specific religious charge: in 17th-century England, a 'Nonconformist' was someone who refused to conform to the practices of the established Church of England. The word later widened from pews to everywhere else — any refusal to be shaped into the common mold.
- irony
- its uniform is just a different uniform
- solomon asch
- 1951 study: people denied obvious facts to fit in
- root
- latin conformare, to shape alike, now gleefully un-shaped
- paradox
- the loudest rebels often look identical to each other