| NOUN | event | formality, formalities | a requirement of etiquette or custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | formality, formalness | a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | |
| act | formality | compliance with formal rules |
| Sounds | faormae'lahtiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | A requirement of etiquette or custom. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a mere formality" | |
| Synonym | formalities | |
| Broader | ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance | A formal event performed on a special occasion |
| Spanish | formalidades, formalidad | |
| Catalan | formalitat, formalitats | |
| Adjectives | formal | characteristic of or befitting a person in authority |
| Meaning | A manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention" | |
| Synonym | formalness | |
| Attributes | formal | In accord / accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) |
| formal | (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | |
| informal | not formal | |
| informal | Used of spoken and written language | |
| Narrower | ceremoniousness | A ceremonial manner |
| stateliness | An elaborate manner of doing something | |
| Broader | manner, personal manner | A way of acting or behaving |
| Opposite | informality | A manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously |
| Spanish | etiqueta, formalidad | |
| Catalan | formalitat | |
| Meaning | compliance with formal rules. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "courtroom formality" | |
| Broader | conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance | Acting according to certain accepted standards |
| Usage | banausic | (formal) ordinary and not refined |
| herald, trumpeter | (formal) a person who announces important news | |
| hereby, herewith | (formal) by means of this | |
| person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person | |
| slough of despond | (formal) extreme / extreme depression | |
| therein, in this, in that | (formal) in or into that thing or place | |
| Spanish | formalidad | |
| Catalan | formalitat | |
| Adjectives | formal | being in accord / accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) |
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