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.