Definition for Formality:

• The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

Synonyms for Formality:

• n.

  •
  • act,
  • operation,
  • action,
  • move,
  • activity,
  • venture,
  • thing,
  • demonstration,
  • course,
  • deed.
  •
  • basis,
  • tactic,
  • means,
  • system,
  • method,
  • way,
  • technique,
  • protocol,
  • mode,
  • procedure.
  •act (noun)
  • formality.
  •appropriate behavior, good manners (noun)
  • decorum.
  •austerity (noun)
  • gravity,
  • harshness,
  • grimness,
  • hardness,
  • inclemency,
  • stiffness,
  • exactingness,
  • stringency,
  • seriousness,
  • inflexibility,
  • exactness,
  • obduracy,
  • acerbity,
  • coldness,
  • astringence,
  • sternness,
  • rigidity,
  • asperity,
  • formalness,
  • strictness,
  • rigor.
  •ceremony (noun)
  • nicety,
  • conformity,
  • function,
  • politeness,
  • prescription,
  • sacrament,
  • parade,
  • usage,
  • preciseness,
  • observance,
  • show,
  • formal courtesy,
  • ordinance,
  • pomp,
  • custom,
  • commemoration,
  • ceremonial.
  •ceremony, tradition (noun)
  • rite.
  •classicism (noun)
  • lucidity,
  • hellenism,
  • neoclassicism,
  • finish,
  • grandeur,
  • symmetry,
  • rhythm,
  • class,
  • simplicity,
  • clarity,
  • purity,
  • Classicalism,
  • aesthetic principle,
  • high art,
  • conventional formality,
  • severity,
  • nobility,
  • pure taste,
  • rationalism,
  • formal style,
  • Ciceronianism,
  • majesty,
  • grand style,
  • sublimity,
  • excellence,
  • sobriety,
  • balance,
  • elegance,
  • refinement,
  • proportion,
  • polish,
  • objectivity,
  • Atticism.
  •conformity (noun)
  • congruity,
  • adherence,
  • conformance,
  • etiquette,
  • propriety,
  • regularity,
  • correctness,
  • submissiveness,
  • obedience,
  • consistency,
  • submission,
  • tradition,
  • convention,
  • manner,
  • compliance,
  • acquiescence,
  • accordance.
  •convention (noun)
  • habit,
  • code,
  • understanding,
  • precept,
  • covenance,
  • law,
  • percept,
  • canon.
  •convention, custom (noun)
  • rubric,
  • red tape,
  • academism,
  • conventionality,
  • stereotype,
  • liturgy,
  • service,
  • rule,
  • gesture,
  • Convenance,
  • matter of form,
  • Officialism,
  • rituality,
  • Solemnness,
  • solemnity.
  •custom (noun)
  • performance,
  • mold,
  • Customariness,
  • observation,
  • type,
  • unwritten rule,
  • character,
  • attitude,
  • mores,
  • pattern,
  • praxis,
  • routine,
  • precedent,
  • use,
  • taste,
  • matter of course,
  • style,
  • folkways,
  • vogue,
  • second nature,
  • established way,
  • design,
  • inheritence,
  • practice,
  • dictates,
  • policy,
  • unwritten law.
  •decency (noun)
  • good manners,
  • modesty,
  • honesty,
  • good form,
  • virtue,
  • fittingness,
  • appropriateness,
  • civility,
  • fitness,
  • respectability,
  • seemliness,
  • righteousness.
  •etiquette (noun)
  • punctilio.
  •etiquette, protocol (noun)
  • formalism,
  • mummery,
  • conventionalism,
  • p's and q's,
  • politesse,
  • honors.
  •fashion (noun)
  • formula.
  •flashy display (noun)
  • pageantry.
  •form (noun)
  • done thing,
  • by numbers,
  • by the book.
  •formalities (noun)
  • formalities.
  •gentility (noun)
  • ruling class,
  • good family,
  • upper crust,
  • gentle birth,
  • Gentlefolk,
  • ruling classes,
  • high birth,
  • good breeding,
  • Gentlefolks,
  • Optimacy.
  •good manners (noun)
  • graciousness,
  • respectfulness.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • flourish,
  • grandiloquence,
  • bravado,
  • blatancy,
  • ornateness,
  • rakishness,
  • dramatics,
  • splashiness,
  • fuss,
  • swaggar,
  • splendor,
  • histrionics,
  • exhibitionism,
  • opulence,
  • garishness,
  • Flagrancy,
  • pomposity,
  • shamelessness,
  • grandiosity,
  • showmanship,
  • jauntiness,
  • dash,
  • Bravura,
  • gaudiness,
  • affectedness,
  • showiness,
  • flashiness,
  • boastfulness,
  • sensationalism,
  • flamboyance,
  • ostentation,
  • snazziness,
  • pomp and circumstance,
  • vanity.
  •punctilio (noun)
  • proper behavior,
  • ps qs,
  • p and q,
  • p's q's,
  • p q,
  • ps and qs,
  • proper behaviors.
  •reserve (noun)
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • taciturnity,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • re-serve,
  • shyness,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • selfrestraint,
  • re serve,
  • re serves,
  • un responsiveness,
  • self restraint,
  • re-serves.
  •respectable behavior (noun)
  • decency.
  •seriousness (noun)
  • gravitas.
  •sophistication, cultivation (noun)
  • gentility.
  •stiffness (noun)
  • prudery,
  • Pruderies.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •technicality (noun)
  • nothing to speak of,
  • escape clause,
  • Technicalities,
  • minor point,
  • nothing to write home about.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativeness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • courtesy,
  • restraint,
  • austerity,
  • behavior,
  • pleonasm,
  • classicism,
  • idiolect,
  • dignity,
  • ceremoniousness,
  • rhetoric,
  • sloganeering,
  • pretense,
  • verbiage,
  • rhetorician,
  • parlance.
  •
  • ceremony,
  • polemic,
  • diction,
  • oratory,
  • fashion,
  • starch,
  • punctiliousness,
  • monotone,
  • fustian,
  • gymnastics.
  •
  • fluency.
  •
  • formulation.
  •
  • form.
  •
  • delivery.
  •
  • flow,
  • tone.
  •
  • note,
  • talk.
  •
  • spin.
  •calmness
  • reserve.

Paraphrases for Formality:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    form.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    technicality, rigidity, modality, stiffness, procedure, format, editorial, paperwork.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    formalism, formal, ritual.

Antonyms for Formality:

• n.

  • austerity
    gentility, calmness, blandness, meekness, mildness.
  • convention
    strangeness.
  • convention, custom
    informality.
  • custom
    departure, deviation.
  • decency
    indecency, immorality, immodesty, obscenity, obsceneness.
  • decorum
    rudeness, bad behavior, bad manners, impoliteness.
  • etiquette, protocol
    wrong, impropriety, unsuitableness.

Formality Sentence Examples:

• A man had gone in upon him suddenly one evening without the formality of knocking.

• But as it turned out the duplicate was not needed; the Squire made nothing of the formality.

Hyponym for Formality:

• n.

  • act
    compliance, conformity, conformation, abidance.