formality

formality has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. compliance with formal rules; "courtroom formality"
• n.. a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies; "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention"
• n.. a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality"