the condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.-form without substance.-compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.-an established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.-the dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.-that which is formal; the formal part.-the quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.-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.