meaning of formality
1. The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
2. Form without substance.
3. Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
4. An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
5. The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
6. That which is formal; the formal part.
7. The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
8. The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.
9. compliance with formal rules