Dictionary Entry
formality
formality is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
- 2noun
Form without substance.
- 3noun
Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
- 4noun
An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
- 5noun
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
- 6noun
That which is formal; the formal part.
- 7noun
The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
compliance with formal rules
"courtroom formality"
- 10noun
a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
"the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention"
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- 11noun
a requirement of etiquette or custom
"a mere formality"
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