Formalism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms, as in religion or art.
  • n. An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms.
  • n. A method of aesthetic analysis that emphasizes structural elements and artistic techniques rather than content, especially in literary works.
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  • n. Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
  • n. One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
  • n. An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
  • n. The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
  • n. A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The character of being formal; strict adherence to or observance of prescribed or recognized form, rule, style, etiquette, or the like; excessive attachment to conventional usage, or (especially in religion) to external forms and observances; hence, artificiality or cold stiffness of manner or behavior: as, judicial formalism; formalism in art; the formalism of pedantry or of court life; cold formalism in public worship.
  • n. In philos.: The system which denies the existence of matter and recognizes form only; phenomenal idealism.
  • n. A belief in the sufficiency of formal logic, especially of the traditional syllogistic, for the purposes of human thought.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
  • n. the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
  • n. the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory    ism    philosophy    school of thought   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scholasticism    pedantry    dogmatism    materialism    conventionality   
     
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