Formality

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being formal.
 * 2) Something said or done as a matter of form.
 * 3) A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.

Adjectives for Formality
concluding; statuesque; affected; stiff; precise; professional; imposing; architectural; stately; icy; tired; tiring; degrading; rigid; joyless.

Adverbs for Formality
adopt—; break—; conduct with—; conform to—; discard—; dress in—; don—; ease—;ed; countless (pi); creeping; crowded; crumpled; cultivated; cumulative; curvi¬linear; debasing; cylindrical; dainty; de¬crepit; desired; definite; democratic; detail¬ed; determinate; diabolic; diluted; dis¬guised; disrobed; dissolving; distressing distribution; durable;  earliest;  ecstatic elastic; elegant; elliptic; emasculated; erect ephemeral; epistolary; equitable; establish¬ed; erroneous; eventual; exaggerated; ex¬press; expurgated; exquisite; faded; fair; faltering; famished; fan-shaped; fantasma-like; fantastic; faultless; feigned; feminine; fiery; flawless; flitting; floral; fluid; frag¬ile; fruitful; gallant; fundamental; garbled; gaseous; gigantic; gasping; gaunt; geomet¬rical; ghostly; glancing; gleaming; gloomy; glorious; glowing; gnarled; graceful; good¬ly; graceless; grandiose; granular; graphic; greyhound-like; groaning; guileless; handsome; harmless; harmonic; heavenly; herculean; heroic; historic; horrible; huddled; hulking; human; hungry; hurrying; ill-clad; imposing; improvisational; incoherent; inconvenient; indirect; individual; indurate; inert; inexorable; infantile; ingenious; intimate; instrumental; intricate; irritated jovial; jostling; kicking; languid; lanky lifeless; long; low; magnified; majestic malignant; mainfold; manly; mantled; maritime; metrical; microscopic; milder; mitigated; moderate; modified; molder-ing; monophonic; monumental; motionless; motley (pi) ; moving; mundane; myriad; mythologic; native; never-shifting; needle-shaped; obese; offensive; oligarchic; operatic; organic; outward; palpable; palatable; particular; pathetic; permanent; plastic; pliant; poetic; pompous; portly; prescribed; pretentious; printed; pristine; prone; proper; prostrate; protesting; proverbial; provincial; puerile; puerperal; pure; quantitative; quivering; rebellious; recitative; recumbent; regular; related; reluctant; re¬pugnant; respectful; retiring; rhythmic; robust; rigid; sardonic; scholastic; semicircular; semi-elliptical; senseless; serpentine; shadowy; shaky; shapely; simple; shivering; shriveled; shrouded; sinking; shrunken; singular; skeleton; slender; slim; smug; slouching; slumping; spare; spectral; spheroidal; spiritualized; squalid; staggering; standard; startling; stately; stiff; strange; strong; structural; struggling; stunted; subsumed; suffering; suitable; superb; swallow-tailed; symmetrical; tall; tapering; technical; tedious; theistic; thickening; thin; tiny; titanic; tortuous; tottering; towering; traditional; transient; typical; unadulterated; unblemished; undulating; undying; unhealthy;  unimaginable;   unintelligible; united; unmatched; unnatural; unphonetic; unremembered; unsubstantial; unusual; vacant; valuable; vaporous; varied; vast; veiled; venerable; vicarious; villanelle; virulent;  visible;   visionary;   warlike; wasted; wedge-shaped; weird; well-balanced; willowy; feeble; coherent; wolflike; wooden; writhing; conversational; peculiar; pedagogic; peerless; phantom.

Verbs for Formality
accept—; adhere to—; assume—; conven¬tionalize—; develop—; distort—; enhance —; evince—; gain—; insist on—; jeopardize—; lend—to; model on—; pattern—; retain—; scoff at—; standardize—; —embraces; —sways.

Thesaurus
Procrustean law, act, baccalaureate service, bienseance, bill, bylaw, canon, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, circumstance, civility, code, commencement, conformity, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, convocation, correctness, criterion, custom, decency, decorousness, decorum, decree, demureness, dictate, dictation, duty, earnestness, edict, elegance, empty formality, enactment, etiquette, euphemism, euphuism, exactness, exercise, exercises, exquisiteness, form, form of worship, formal, formalism, formula, formulary, function, good form, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, grimness, guideline, heraldry, holy rite, inaugural, inauguration, inflexibility, initiation, institution, jus, law, law of nature, legislation, lex, liturgy, long face, maxim, measure, mode of worship, mummery, mystery, norm, norma, observance, office, order of nature, order of worship, ordinance, ordonnance, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantry, performance, politesse, pomp, practice, preciosity, preciousness, precisianism, precision, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, pride, principle, procedure, propriety, protocol, punctilio, purism, regulation, religious ceremony, rigidity, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, rubric, rule, ruling, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seemliness, seriousness, service, set form, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, social convention, social usage, solemnity, solemnization, solemnness, somberness, staidness, standard, standing order, state, statute, stiffness, straight face, strictness, thoughtfulness, universal law, weightiness, wont

Translations

 * Croatian:
 * Czech: formalita
 * Dutch: formaliteit
 * Portuguese: formalidade


 * Swedish: formalitet