Word Meaning

formality definition and meaning

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.