Definition of formality
- 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.