Formality

Definition:

  • (n.) The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
  • (n.) Form without substance.
  • (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
  • (n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
  • (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
  • (n.) That which is formal; the formal part.
  • (n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
  • (n.) 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.

Compare formality with other words:

formality vs. setness

formality vs. starchedness

formality vs. procedure

example vs. formality

formality vs. polite

formality vs. informality

formality vs. formalize

ceremonious vs. formality

ceremony vs. formality

formality vs. gesture

formality vs. unique

formality vs. meaning

formality vs. ritual

customary vs. formality

form vs. formality

done vs. formality

formality vs. said

formal vs. formality

formality vs. starch

dignity vs. formality