n. | 1. | The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc. |
2. | Form without substance. | |
3. | Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. | |
4. | An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode. | |
5. | The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. | |
6. | That which is formal; the formal part. | |
7. | The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence. | |
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; |
Noun | 1. | formality - a requirement of etiquette or custom Synonyms: formalities |
2. | formality - a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies Synonyms: formalness Antonyms: informality - a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | |
3. | formality - compliance with formal rules |