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nonadherence

noun

nonadherence is a noun meaning “A failure to adhere to something, such as a schedule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-O-N-A-D-H-E-R-E-N-C-E, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nonadherence is nonadherences.

What does nonadherence mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A failure to adhere to something, such as a schedule.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of nonadherence

  • nonadherences plural
  • non-adherence

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is nonadherence?

Nonadherence appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).