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formality 音标拼音: [fɔrm'æləti] n. 礼节,程序,拘谨,正式手续 礼节,程式,拘谨,正式手续 formality n 1: a requirement of etiquette or custom; " a mere formality" [ synonym: { formality}, { formalities}] 2: a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies; " the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention" [ synonym: { formality}, { formalness}] [ ant: { informality}] 3: compliance with formal rules; " courtroom formality" Formality \ For* mal" i* ty\, n.; pl. { Formalities}. [ Cf. F. formalit[' e].] 1. The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Form without substance. [ 1913 Webster] Such [ books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. [ 1913 Webster] Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster] 4. An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode. [ 1913 Webster] He was installed with all the usual formalities. -- C. Middleton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. pl. The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 6. That which is formal; the formal part. [ 1913 Webster] It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 7. The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence. [ 1913 Webster] The material part of the evil came from our father upon us, but the formality of it, the sting and the curse, is only by ourselves. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God. -- Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Scholastic. Philos.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 150 Moby Thesaurus words for " formality": Procrustean law, act, baccalaureate service, bienseance, bill, bylaw, canon, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, circumstance, civility, code, commencement, conformity, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, convocation, correctness, criterion, custom, decency, decorousness, decorum, decree, demureness, dictate, dictation, duty, earnestness, edict, elegance, empty formality, enactment, etiquette, euphemism, euphuism, exactness, exercise, exercises, exquisiteness, form, form of worship, formal, formalism, formula, formulary, function, good form, goody- goodness, goody- goodyism, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, grimness, guideline, heraldry, holy rite, inaugural, inauguration, inflexibility, initiation, institution, jus, law, law of nature, legislation, lex, liturgy, long face, maxim, measure, mode of worship, mummery, mystery, norm, norma, observance, office, order of nature, order of worship, ordinance, ordonnance, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantry, performance, politesse, pomp, practice, preciosity, preciousness, precisianism, precision, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, pride, principle, procedure, propriety, protocol, punctilio, purism, regulation, religious ceremony, rigidity, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, rubric, rule, ruling, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seemliness, seriousness, service, set form, sober- mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, social convention, social usage, solemnity, solemnization, solemnness, somberness, staidness, standard, standing order, state, statute, stiffness, straight face, strictness, thoughtfulness, universal law, weightiness, wont
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