'Formalities' definitions:
Definition of 'formalities'
From: WordNet
noun
A requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality" [syn: formality, formalities]
Definition of 'Formalities'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'formalities'
From: GCIDE
- formalities \formalities\ n. a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.
- Syn: form, formality. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'formalities'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amenities,
- ceremonies,
- civilities,
- civility,
- comity,
- convention,
- courtliness,
- decencies,
- decorum,
- dignities,
- diplomatic code,
- elegance,
- elegancies,
- etiquette,
- exquisite manners,
- gentilities,
- good form,
- good manners,
- graces,
- manners,
- mores,
- natural politeness,
- point of etiquette,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- proprieties,
- protocol,
- punctilio,
- quiet good manners,
- rites,
- rituals,
- rules of conduct,
- social code,
- social conduct,
- social graces,
- social procedures,
- social usage