Index of English words, starting with "fo"

(1) - Formalism (n.) The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

(1) - Formalist (n.) One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

(1) - Formality (n.) 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.
(2) - Formality (n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
(3) - Formality (n.) That which is formal; the formal part.
(4) - Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
(5) - Formality (n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
(6) - Formality (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
(7) - Formality (n.) Form without substance.
(8) - Formality (n.) The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

(1) - Formalize (v. i.) To affect formality.
(2) - Formalize (v. t.) To render formal.
(3) - Formalize (v. t.) To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.