noun. The quality or condition of being formal.

noun. Rigorous or ceremonious adherence to established forms, rules, or customs.

noun. An established form, rule, or custom, especially one followed merely for the sake of procedure or decorum.

noun. The condition or quality of being formal; specifically, rigid or undue observance of forms or established rules, as in style, conduct, or procedure; especially, the sacrifice of substance or spirit to form; conventionality.

noun. The result of exclusive attention to the rules of art, without life or spontaneity.

noun. An established order; a rule of proceeding; a formal mode or method: as, the formalities of judicial process; formalities of law.

noun. Validity; binding force.

noun. Customary behavior or dress, or customary ceremony; ceremonial.

noun. In philosophy, external appearance; formal part.

noun. In the philosophy of Duns Scotus, a formal element of being; a quidditative ens, or anything belonging thereto except an intrinsic mode.

noun. The character of the formal in the Kantian sense: universality and necessity.

noun. The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

noun. Form without substance.

noun. Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.

noun. An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.

noun. The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.

noun. That which is formal; the formal part.

noun. The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.

noun. The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act.

noun. The state of being formal.

noun. Something said or done as a matter of form.

noun. A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.

noun. compliance with formal rules

noun. a requirement of etiquette or custom

noun. a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies

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