FORMALISM
- Excessive adherence to prescribed forms
- 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
- (in the theater) A symbolic and stylized manner of production
- Concern or excessive concern with form and technique rather than content in artistic creation
- The treatment of mathematics as a manipulation of meaningless symbols
- A description of something in formal mathematical or logical terms
- the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp in matters of religion [n -S]
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