Dictionary and Thesaurus

Definition of Formality

• (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.

Synonyms of Formality

• Formalities
• Formalness

Antonyms of Formality

• Informality

Homophones of Formality