What are the antonyms for FORMALITY?
- mildness, meekness, blandness, rudeness, indecency, unsuitableness, departure, bad behavior, bad manners, obscenity, immorality, immodesty, informality, deviation, strangeness, impoliteness, gentility, calmness, obsceneness, wrong, impropriety.
Synonyms for FORMALITY
- formal courtesy,
- fluency,
- matter of course,
- dash,
- Exercises,
- balance,
- rigidity,
- Classicalism,
- simplicity,
- nobility,
- vanity,
- bravado,
- acerbity,
- criterion,
- occasion,
- histrionics,
- distinction,
- sober-mindedness,
- character,
- excellence,
- pride,
- JUS,
- ritual,
- tactic,
- diction,
- token,
- Precisianism,
- neoclassicism,
- Customariness,
- standing order,
- civility,
- affable,
- formality,
- air,
- second nature,
- Technicalities,
- ruling class,
- dictation,
- Sententiousness,
- genteel,
- rite,
- preciousness,
- gambit,
- civil,
- compliance,
- fittingness,
- method,
- maxim,
- custom,
- institution,
- well-behaved,
- ruling,
- mode,
- sublimity,
- religious ceremony,
- convention,
- respectfulness,
- delivery,
- spectacle,
- pageant,
- prim,
- Courteousness,
- sobersides,
- demeanor,
- delicate,
- detachment,
- escape clause,
- politesse,
- red tape,
- punctilio,
- note,
- conceive,
- practises,
- mock modesty,
- weightiness,
- established way,
- presentation,
- display,
- refinement,
- inheritence,
- habit,
- legal process,
- eminence,
- etiquette,
- demonstration,
- gentle birth,
- tone,
- liturgy,
- build,
- sobersidedness,
- decorum,
- acquiescence,
- rituality,
- sacrament,
- aloofness,
- seemliness,
- formalize,
- baccalaureate service,
- obduracy,
- elegant,
- venture,
- hellenism,
- objectivity,
- bill,
- praxis,
- civilized,
- ceremoniousness,
- respect,
- academism,
- action,
- talk,
- symmetry,
- high birth,
- breeding,
- high art,
- folkways,
- upper crust,
- decorousness,
- heraldry,
- move,
- regulation,
- conventional formality,
- gentlemanlike,
- precept,
- grand style,
- Fieri Facias,
- decree,
- throw,
- Gentlemanliness,
- restraint,
- courteous,
- pageantry,
- commencement,
- rakishness,
- formalities,
- euphemism,
- system,
- ceremony,
- technicality,
- practice,
- form,
- dictates,
- parade,
- dramatics,
- consistency,
- propriety,
- enunciate,
- flamboyance,
- conformance,
- formula,
- wont,
- appearance,
- acquire,
- Sentimentalism,
- done thing,
- Bravura,
- pomp,
- sedateness,
- convocation,
- banquet,
- percept,
- flow,
- pleonasm,
- gracious,
- gathering,
- Formulary,
- ornateness,
- ceremonial,
- Extrinsicality,
- policy,
- conformity,
- accordance,
- office,
- exercise,
- primness,
- design,
- Convenance,
- Optimacy,
- overrefinement,
- preciseness,
- polite,
- prescription,
- taste,
- refined,
- minauderie,
- clarity,
- sobriety,
- polished,
- habeas corpus,
- severity,
- correctness,
- gravity,
- precedent,
- regularity,
- formal,
- ordinance,
- create,
- seriousness,
- stateliness,
- function,
- canon,
- arise,
- usage,
- universal law,
- state,
- formalism,
- graciousness,
- virtue,
- politeness,
- unwritten rule,
- fustian,
- statute,
- modesty,
- observance,
- edict,
- ploy,
- set form,
- submission,
- commemoration,
- code,
- guardedness,
- act,
- pretense,
- Atticism,
- Gentlefolk,
- sloganeering,
- standard,
- formulate,
- rhythm,
- precision,
- ruling classes,
- authority,
- finish,
- formalise,
- guideline,
- austerity,
- good family,
- demureness,
- obstinate,
- obedience,
- elegance,
- asperity,
- manners,
- lip service,
- starch,
- reticence,
- straight face,
- reception,
- somberness,
- rigor,
- means,
- Proprieties,
- norma,
- pure taste,
- conventionality,
- blatancy,
- symbol,
- reserve,
- hardness,
- Officialism,
- grimness,
- dinner,
- nice,
- polish,
- class,
- flashiness,
- conventionalism,
- bylaw,
- submissiveness,
- attention,
- pomp and circumstance,
- inclemency,
- preciosity,
- shamelessness,
- honesty,
- purity,
- strictness,
- coquetry,
- Obsequies,
- taciturnity,
- validate,
- attitude,
- dictate,
- good form,
- verbiage,
- prescript,
- vogue,
- well-bred,
- ladylike,
- formulation,
- unwritten law,
- Solemnness,
- pleasantry,
- nothing to write home about,
- garishness,
- buckram,
- sternness,
- grandiloquence,
- weight,
- obliging,
- decorous,
- swaggar,
- duty,
- rhetoric,
- soberness,
- nicety,
- celebration,
- conventions,
- matter of form,
- exhibitionism,
- congruity,
- prudery,
- courtliness,
- gravitas,
- tradition,
- coolness,
- idiolect,
- indication,
- staidness,
- inflexibility,
- activity,
- diplomacy,
- stereotype,
- behavior,
- event,
- grandeur,
- classicism,
- courtly,
- good breeding,
- lucidity,
- rite de passage,
- party,
- oratory,
- norm,
- modest,
- proper,
- procession,
- stringency,
- Flagrancy,
- pomposity,
- put,
- long face,
- observation,
- affair,
- polemic,
- exactingness,
- coldness,
- proportion,
- p's and q's,
- Lex,
- pedantry,
- style,
- respectability,
- selfcontrol,
- type,
- Ciceronianism,
- bienseance,
- by numbers,
- by the book,
- control,
- snazziness,
- harshness,
- cast,
- use,
- appropriateness,
- sensationalism,
- astringence,
- gaudiness,
- operation,
- develop,
- deed,
- courtesy,
- standoffishness,
- initiation,
- dress,
- show,
- Niceties,
- decent,
- covenance,
- aplomb,
- decency,
- temperateness,
- parlance,
- principle,
- circumstance,
- break,
- monotone,
- rubric,
- understanding,
- adherence,
- splendor,
- demure,
- tableau,
- fitness,
- rationalism,
- measure,
- euphuism,
- thoughtfulness,
- routine,
- Motions,
- rite of passage,
- exquisiteness,
- manner,
- ostentation,
- law of nature,
- Purism,
- gesture,
- extravaganza,
- punctiliousness,
- fashion,
- enactment,
- invent,
- showiness,
- civilize,
- Ordonnance,
- earnestness,
- order of the day,
- mummery,
- procedure,
- contrive,
- inaugural,
- Hauteur,
- Puncto,
- mystery,
- good manners,
- grandiosity,
- loftiness,
- boastfulness,
- righteousness,
- splashiness,
- conduct,
- appearances,
- fuss,
- thing,
- bland,
- remoteness,
- aesthetic principle,
- rhetorician,
- way,
- devise,
- formal style,
- majesty,
- performance,
- Gentlefolks,
- nothing to speak of,
- behaviour,
- exactness,
- pattern,
- law,
- compose,
- jauntiness,
- minor point,
- service,
- spin,
- gymnastics,
- affectedness,
- showmanship,
- civilise,
- express,
- solemnity,
- technique,
- gala,
- basis,
- honors,
- shape,
- inauguration,
- mores,
- sacramental,
- social convention,
- mold,
- legislation,
- solemnization,
- opulence,
- protocol,
- flourish,
- deportment,
- stiffness,
- figure,
- graduation,
- dignity,
- rule,
- orderly,
- formalness,
- course.
Usage Examples for FORMALITY
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" Monsieur," he said with mock formality, " to- day, when you permitted yourself to save my skin, you called me a fool. - "The Missourian" by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
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" Jean," she said ingenuously, " you know we took the cottage without much formality as far as any definite length of time was concerned. - "The Belovéd Traitor" by Frank L. Packard
