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formalism
[fawr-muh-liz-uhm]
noun
strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
Religion.strong attachment to external forms and observances.
Ethics.a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences.
Logic, Mathematics.a doctrine, which evolved from a proposal of David Hilbert, that mathematics, including the logic used in proofs, can be based on the formal manipulation of symbols without regard to their meaning.
formalism
/ ˈɔːəˌɪə /
noun
scrupulous or excessive adherence to outward form at the expense of inner reality or content
the mathematical or logical structure of a scientific argument as distinguished from its subject matter
the notation, and its structure, in which information is expressed
theatre a stylized mode of production
(in Marxist criticism) excessive concern with artistic technique at the expense of social values, etc
the philosophical theory that a mathematical statement has no meaning but that its symbols, regarded as physical objects, exhibit a structure that has useful applications Compare logicism intuitionism
Other Word Forms
- formalist noun
- formalistic adjective
- formalistically adverb
- antiformalist noun
- nonformalism noun
- nonformalistic adjective
- unformalistic adjective
- ˌڴǰˈپ adjective
- ˈڴǰ noun
- ˌڴǰˈپally adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of formalism1
Example Sentences
And because of that, there’s a very rigid formalism to it, on just the formatting level.
They used the matrix formalism combined with the conventional inverse problem-solving methodology to find the optimal performance and the final configuration of the solar device.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but deeply engrained formalism in court plays right into Trump’s hands.
followed was investigation of the surprisingly far-reaching consequences of the formalism.
“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.
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