FORMALITY
\fɔːmˈalɪti], \fɔːmˈalɪti], \f_ɔː_m_ˈa_l_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of FORMALITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
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Form without substance.
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Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
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An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
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The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
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The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
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Form without substance.
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Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
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An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
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The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
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The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Formally.
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The precise observance of forms or ceremonies: established order.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The precise observance of forms; mere conformity to customary modes; established order; mode; external appearance or form; the essence or quality which constitutes a thing what it is; an abstraction as conceived and constituted by a mere act of thought.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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