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formalism
noun as in ceremony
noun as in formality
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in punctiliousness
Example Sentences
Formalism says by combining and recombining them, contextualizing them in terms of what’s being heard, musically, that’s where meaning is found.
Hardy called his new formalism the “causaloid” framework, where the causaloid is the mathematical object used to calculate the probabilities of outcomes of any measurement in any region.
Accounting for these scenarios has forced researchers to develop new mathematical formalisms and ways of thinking.
He was accused of “formalism,” a catch-all accusation that, like “Trotskyite,” had the ring of execution about it.
The concept is that the formalism of past summits has made meaningful conversation difficult.
Originally trained as a painter, Mthethwa brings a determined visual formalism to the portraits of his subjects in their homes.
The very origin of Khassidism was due to a protest against that cold formalism which excluded everything imaginative.
If there is any bias on the bench that is popularly and justly disliked it is a bias towards formalism and technicalities.
There was a formalism to it, there was pomp and circumstance.
In Islam devotion is a strong point, formalism is its weakness.
Any explanation would be futile of this branch of a forgotten formalism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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