Difference between Noncompliance and Disobedience

What is the difference between Noncompliance and Disobedience?

Noncompliance as a noun is a failure to comply while Disobedience as a noun is refusal to obey.

Noncompliance

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A failure to comply

Disobedience

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Refusal to obey.

Example sentence: There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

We hope you now know whether to use Noncompliance or Disobedience in your sentence.

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