Formality

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.