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Formalism
ˈfɔːməlɪz(ə)m
Formalism definitions
noun
formalism
formalisms
- excessive adherence to prescribed forms
"academic dryness and formalism"
conventionality traditionalism orthodoxy fitting in following the crowd running with the pack swimming with the stream- the use of forms of worship without regard to inner significance
- the basing of ethics on the form of the moral law without regard to intention or consequences
- concern or excessive concern with form and technique rather than content in artistic creation
- (in the theatre) a symbolic and stylized manner of production
- the treatment of mathematics as a manipulation of meaningless symbols
- a description of something in formal mathematical or logical terms
"there is a formalism which expresses the idea of superposition"