"formality" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A requirement of etiquette or custom (synset 107469617)
hypernym: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance - a formal event performed on a special occasion

synonym: formalities
A manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies (synset 104918597)
attribute:
- formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
- informal - not formal
- formal - (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
- informal - used of spoken and written language
hypernym: manner, personal manner - a way of acting or behaving
hyponym:
- ceremoniousness - a ceremonial manner
- stateliness - an elaborate manner of doing something
synonym: formalness
Compliance with formal rules (synset 101206545)
domain member usage:
- person of color, person of colour - (formal) any non-European non-white person
- herald, trumpeter - (formal) a person who announces important news
- slough of despond - (formal) extreme depression
- banausic - (formal) ordinary and not refined
- in that, in this, therein - (formal) in or into that thing or place
- hereby, herewith - (formal) by means of this
hypernym: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity - acting according to certain accepted standards