Definition of Formality

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Formality

The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

Form without substance.

Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.

An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.

That which is formal; the formal part.

The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.

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.

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Formality Quotations

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
Suzanne Vega

We'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.
Radha Mitchell

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.
Chuck Mangione

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
Bobby Flay

Formality Translations

formality in Norwegian is formalitet
formality in Spanish is requisito
formality in Swedish is formalitet

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