Similar words: formalise, normalise, normalize, normality, formalize, formality, formalized, formalities. Meaning: ['fɔrməlɪzm /'fɔːm-] 
n. 1. the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented 2. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications 3. the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms.
n. 1. the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented 2. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications 3. the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms. 
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1. The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling.
2. Mathematical truth is something that goes beyond mere formalism.
3. Remember that elsewhere our formalism contains complex numbers.
4. It demonstrates the limitations of formalism.
5. It can be argued that formalism is fundamentally irreconcilable with other readings-especially, in this instance, psychoanalytical readings.
6. The formalism of quantum mechanics makes no distinction, in this respect, between single particles and complicated systems of many particles.
7. A return to formalism is highly unlikely given popular expectations of individualized justice.
8. The quantum mechanical formalism itself is left as the sole source of insight.
9. As stated elsewhere, formalism evolved in line with developments in modern painting and sculpture.
10. Mr Bernard's formalism disregards all of the significant aspects of my work.
11. In contrast to Formalism and structuralism, the New Criticism was empiricist and humanistic.
12. Radiation effects relevant to this formalism are additive.
13. Formalism and functionalism are distinct research traditions.
14. This is what is called formalism.
15. Formalism is a kind of bureaucratism.
16. Can Formalism and Functionalism Communicate with Each Other?
17. Its imperfectness, formalism are where its life lies.
18. One of our problems today is formalism.
19. The development of formalism is contrary to the spirit of the legislation.
20. In other words, the job leads thinking away from the dangers of formalism back into reality.
21. It was here, in the traditional speech to the drawn-up troops, that revolutionary formalism was most apparent.
22. I have briefly described the three main streams of present-day mathematical philosophy: formalism, Platonism, and intuitionism.
23. The notion of mathematical truth goes beyond the whole concept of formalism.
24. However, communication with users and clients is not necessarily helped by the use of formalism.
25. The attempt to make such distinctions clear was a strong motive behind the whole idea of formalism.
26. It was a free system with none of the formalism of the ordinary civil procedure.
27. The western observer may well wonder how Falk could possibly have been condemned for formalism, as he was, in 1946/7.
28. As early as 1928, Bakhtin made critical comment on the formalism of the communication mode.
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29. But ethics without practical application only lead to the sterile formalism and abstractionism of scholastic thought.
30. If valued from the benchmark of artistic theory, the most radical formalism, and the most extreme conceptualism or functionalism have all appeared in Chinese contemporary art.
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