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(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(n.) The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

(3):

(n.) That which is formal; the formal part.

(4):

(n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.

(5):

(n.) Form without substance.

(6):

(n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.

(7):

(n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.

(8):

(n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.