Formality
noun — Plural: Formalities
- 1.
- (UNCOUNTABLE) (attention to forms, rules, and customs, something required by custom, rule, or social practice) excessive formality ទម្រង់ការ, បែបបទ, just a formality គ្រាន់តែបង្គ្រប់កិច្ច
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ទម្រង់ការបែបបទ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Formalities
- 1.
- The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
- 2.
- Form without substance.
- 3.
- Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
- 4.
- An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
- 5.
- The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
- 6.
- That which is formal; the formal part.
- 7.
- The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
- 8.
- 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.