formalism

formalism has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
• n.. the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
• n.. the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
• 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