Usually means: Adherence to established rules, conventions.
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  1. formality: Merriam-Webster
  2. formality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. formality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Formality, formality: Wordnik
  7. formality: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. formality: Wiktionary
  9. formality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. formality: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. formality: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Formality, formality: Dictionary.com
  13. formality: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Formality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Formality: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. formality: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. formality: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. formality: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. formality: FreeDictionary.org
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  23. formality: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  3. formality: Legal dictionary

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  1. formality: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (formality)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The state of being formal.
▸ noun:  Something said or done as a matter of form.
▸ noun:  A customary ritual without substance, real consequence, or unique meaning.
▸ noun:  (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.

Similar:
formalness, starch, formalizability, formfulness, officiality, solemnness, strictness, formulaicity, semiformality, informality, more...

Opposite:
informality, casualness

Types:
ceremony, ritual, rite, pomp, pageantry, more...

Phrases:
without formality, as a formality, with formality, A Pure Formality, marked by formality, more...

Adjectives:
mere, more, great, legal, little, certain, stiff, cold, empty, due, pure

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Similar:
formalness, starch, formalizability, formfulness, officiality, solemnness, strictness, formulaicity, semiformality, informality, more...

Opposite:
informality, casualness

Types:
ceremony, ritual, rite, pomp, pageantry, more...

Phrases:
without formality, as a formality, with formality, A Pure Formality, marked by formality, lack of formality, done for the sake of formality, opposite of formality, kind of formality, commonplace formality, more...

Adjectives:
mere, more, great, legal, little, certain, stiff, cold, empty, due, pure

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     gray,     white,     silver, more...



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