A formality is something that follows traditional rules. Even though you knew your request for time off at work would be approved, you still went through the formality of filling out all the required paperwork.
The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
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compliance with formal rules
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a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
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a requirement of etiquette or custom
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.
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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.
Formality
Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them.3.
Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience.4.
He was installed with all the usual formalities.5.
The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover.6.
It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.7.
The material part of the evil came from our father upon us, but the formality of it, the sting and the curse, is only by ourselves. Jer. Taylor.The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.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; as, animality and rationality are .formalities The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
Usage Examples
Marriage is like a formality for me.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
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