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strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
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Religion. strong attachment to external forms and observances.
3.
Ethics. a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences.
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Formalism
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| formalism (ˈfɔːməˌlɪzəm) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | scrupulous or excessive adherence to outward form at the expense of inner reality or content |
| 2. | a. the mathematical or logical structure of a scientific argument as distinguished from its subject matter |
| b. the notation, and its structure, in which information is expressed | |
| 3. | theatre a stylized mode of production |
| 4. | (in Marxist criticism) excessive concern with artistic technique at the expense of social values, etc |
| 5. | logicism Compare intuitionism 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 |
| 'formalist | |
| —n | |
| formal'istic | |
| —adj | |
| formal'istically | |
| —adv | |
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