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n. The quality or condition of being formal.

n. Rigorous or ceremonious adherence to established forms, rules, or customs.

n. An established form, rule, or custom, especially one followed merely for the sake of procedure or decorum.

n. The state of being formal.

n. Something said or done as a matter of form.

n. A customary ritual without new or unique 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.

n. The condition or quality of being formal; specifically, rigid or undue observance of forms or established rules, as in style, conduct, or procedure; especially, the sacrifice of substance or spirit to form; conventionality.

n. The result of exclusive attention to the rules of art, without life or spontaneity.

n. An established order; a rule of proceeding; a formal mode or method: as, the formalities of judicial process; formalities of law.

n. Validity; binding force.

n. Customary behavior or dress, or customary ceremony; ceremonial.

n. In philosophy, external appearance; formal part.

n. In the philosophy of Duns Scotus, a formal element of being; a quidditative ens, or anything belonging thereto except an intrinsic mode.

n. The character of the formal in the Kantian sense: universality and necessity.

n. compliance with formal rules

n. a requirement of etiquette or custom

n. a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies

"This isn't so much about hospitality, as about keeping a certain formality and mystique in the home for our own families, so that it is a place of respect and sentiment, rather than some dropping off place like anywhere else."

abidance    compliance    conformation    conformity    ceremonial    observance    ceremonial occasion    ceremony   

form   

ceremony    conventionality    essence   

abnormality    bisexuality    brutality    commonality    confidentiality    congeniality    criticality    dimensionality    duality    extraterritoriality   

politeness    ceremony    solemnity    decorum    etiquette    restraint    civility    deference    precaution    caution