formality

1. n. The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc. Source: opted

2. n. Form without substance. Source: opted

3. n. Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. Source: opted

4. n. An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode. Source: opted

5. n. The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. Source: opted

6. n. That which is formal; the formal part. Source: opted

7. n. The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence. Source: opted

8. 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. Source: opted

9. n. a requirement of etiquette or custom Source: wordnet

10. n. a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies Source: wordnet

11. n. compliance with formal rules Source: wordnet

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