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Formality

Formality Meaning & Definition
Formality Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Formality?

[n] compliance with formal rules
[n] a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
[n] a requirement of etiquette or custom

Synonyms | Synonyms for Formality: formalities | formalness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Formality: act | baccalaureate service | bienseance | bill | bylaw | canon | celebration | ceremonial | ceremony | circumstance | civility | code | commencement | conformity | convenance | convention | conventional usage | conventionalism | conventionality | convocation | correctness | criterion | custom | decency | decorousness | decorum | decree | demureness | dictate | dictation | duty | earnestness | edict | elegance | empty formality | enactment | etiquette | euphemism | euphuism | exactness | exercise | exercises | exquisiteness | form | form of worship | formal | formalism | formula | formulary | function | good form | goody-goodness | goody-goodyism | graduation | graduation exercises | gravity | grimness | guideline | heraldry | holy rite | inaugural | inauguration | inflexibility | initiation | institution | jus | law | law of nature | legislation | lex | liturgy | long face | maxim | measure | mode of worship | mummery | mystery | norm | norma | observance | office | order of nature | order of worship | ordinance | ordonnance | overniceness | overpreciseness | overrefinement | pedantry | performance | politesse | pomp | practice | preciosity | preciousness | precisianism | precision | prescribed form | prescript | prescription | pride | principle | procedure | Procrustean law | propriety | protocol | punctilio | purism | regulation | religious ceremony | rigidity | rite | rite de passage | rite of passage | ritual | ritual observance | rituality | rubric | rule | ruling | sacrament | sacramental | sedateness | seemliness | seriousness | service | set form | sober-mindedness | soberness | sobersidedness | sobersides | sobriety | social convention | social usage | solemnity | solemnization | solemnness | somberness | staidness | standard | standing order | state | statute | stiffness | straight face | strictness | thoughtfulness | universal law | weightiness | wont

See Also | abidance | ceremonial | ceremonial occasion | ceremoniousness | ceremony | civility | compliance | conformation | conformity | manner | observance | personal manner | politeness | stateliness

Formality In Webster's Dictionary

\For*mal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Formalities}. [Cf. F. formalit['e].] 1. The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc. 2. Form without substance. Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them. --Fuller. 3. Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience. --Atterbury. 4. An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode. He was installed with all the usual formalities. --C. Middleton. 5. pl. The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. --Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality. --Milton. 7. The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence. The material part of the evil came from our father upon us, but the formality of it, the sting and the curse, is only by ourselves. --Jer. Taylor. The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 8. (Scholastic. Philos.) The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.

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