Formalism Definition

fôrmə-lĭzəm
noun
Strict or excessive attention to or insistence on outward forms, as in art, or established traditions, as in religion.
Webster's New World
An instance of this.
Webster's New World
An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms.
American Heritage
A method of aesthetic analysis that emphasizes structural elements and artistic techniques rather than content, especially in literary works.
American Heritage
(computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
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Noun

Singular:
formalism
Plural:
formalisms

Origin of Formalism

  • From formal +‎ -ism.

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Formalism Sentence Examples

  • This formalism shows itself in many ways.

  • On the one hand, worship passed into formalism and formalism into disuse.

  • It is true that his view of Greek thought is somewhat warped by Hegelian formalism.

  • Wolff's formalism is the bastard outcome of the speculation of Leibnitz, and is related to it as remotely as Scholasticism is to Aristotle.

  • They failed to develop any view which could serve either in fact or in theory as a corrective to the effect of their formalism.

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Words Starting With

FFOFOR

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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formalism

Words Starting With F and Ending With M

Starts With F & Ends With MStarts With FO & Ends With MStarts With F & Ends With SM

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With F9 Letter Words Ending With M