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formalism   (TTS Sound)

The noun formalism has 3 senses

• formalism -- (the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented)


• formalism -- ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications)


• formalism -- (the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms)