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formality
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1 formality
A requirement of etiquette or custom:
— A mere formality.
synoniem: formalities.
Roget 852:
fashion,
style,
ton,
bon ton†,
society;
good society,
polite society;
monde [Fr.];
drawing-room,
civilized life,
civilization,
town,
beau monde [Fr.],
high life,
court;
world;
fashionable world,
gay world;
Vanity Fair;
show
etc.
(ostentation)
822.
manners,
breeding
etc.
(politeness)
894;
air,
demeanor
etc.
(appearance)
448;
savoir faire [Fr.];
gentlemanliness†,
gentility,
decorum,
propriety,
biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society;
Mrs.
Grundy;
punctilio;
form,
formality;
etiquette,
point of etiquette;
dress
etc.
225.
custom
etc.
613;
mode,
vogue,
go;
rage
etc.
(desire)
865;
prevailing taste;
fad,
trend,
bandwagon,
furore†,
thing,
in thing,
craze,
chic,
last word.
man of fashion,
woman of fashion,
man of the world,
woman of the world;
height of fashion,
pink of fashion,
star of fashion,
glass of fashion,
leader of fashion;
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]
etc.
(taste)
850;
the beautiful people,
the fashion set,
upper ten thousand
etc.
(nobility)
875;
elite
etc.
(distinction)
873;
smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
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Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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Roget 882:
ostentation,
display,
show,
flourish,
parade,
etalage [Fr.],
pomp,
array,
state,
solemnity;
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity;
pretense,
pretensions;
showing off;
fuss.
magnificence,
splendor;
coup d'oeil [Fr.];
grand doings.
coup de theatre;
stage effect,
stage trick;
claptrap;
mise en scene [Fr.];
tour de force;
chic.
demonstration,
flying colors;
tomfoolery;
flourish of trumpets
etc.
(celebration)
883;
pageant,
pageantry;
spectacle,
exhibition,
exposition,
procession;
turn out,
set out;
grand function;
f=ete,
gala,
field day,
review,
march past,
promenade,
insubstantial pageant.
dress;
court dress,
full dress,
evening dress,
ball dress,
fancy dress;
tailoring,
millinery,
man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage.
ceremony,
ceremonial;
ritual;
form,
formality;
etiquette;
puncto [Lat.],
punctilio,
punctiliousness;
starched stateliness,
stateliness.
mummery,
solemn mockery,
mouth honor.
attitudinarian†;
fop
etc.
854.
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Roget 963:
legality;
legitimacy,
legitimateness.
legislature;
law,
code,
corpus juris [Lat.],
constitution,
pandect†,
charter,
enactment,
statute,
rule;
canon
etc.
(precept)
697;
ordinance,
institution,
regulation;
bylaw,
byelaw;
decree
etc.
(order)
741;
ordonnance†;
standing order;
plebiscite
etc.
(choice)
609.
legal process;
form,
formula,
formality;
rite,
arm of the law;
habeas corpus;
fieri facias [Lat.].
[Science of law]
jurisprudence,
nomology†;
legislation,
codification.
equity,
common law;
lex [Lat.],
lex nonscripta [Lat.];
law of nations,
droit des gens [Fr.],
international law,
jus gentium [Lat.];
jus civile [Lat.];
civil law,
canon law,
crown law,
criminal law,
statute law,
ecclesiastical law,
administrative law;
lex mercatoria [Lat.].
constitutionalism,
constitutionality;
justice
etc.
922.
[institution for deciding questions of law]
court,
tribunal
etc.
966.
[person who presides at a court or tribunal]
judge
etc.
967.
[specialist in questions of law]
lawyer,
attorney,
legal counsel
etc.
968.
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Nederlands: formaliteit, plichtpleging
Pools: forma, ton, ceremonialność, ceremoniał, konwenans, etykieta, oficjalność, konwenanse
2 formality
A manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies:
— The formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention.
synoniem: formalness.
3 formality
Compliance with formal rules.
Nederlands: formaliteit, beleefdheidsvorm
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