(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.
