formalistic
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˌfɔːrməˈlɪstɪk/
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formalista
- His formalistic approach to painting focuses strictly on lines and shapes without emotional expression.
- formalistic approach
- formalistic requirement
- formalistic categories
Examples
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What is important is that the essence of bureaucracy has to be a formalistic impersonality.
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Textualism is a formalistic endeavor, one establishing a set of rules or a canon of statutory construction, which he reviews briefly.
Academic text (1999) -
In other words, I am not concerned here with the formalistic framework but with its deeper substance.
Academic text (2016) -
In other words, this perspective should neither be nationalistic, nor should it be formalistic for that matter.
Academic text (1997) -
On the other hand, those students with absolute or formalistic thinking are likely to choose either technical or lecturing teachers as their role models.
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A purist, formalistic stance is not possible or desirable in the complex world in which music and music education exist.
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In the past, the democratic orientations of the Thais had been formalistic, in the sense that these orientations had little depth.
Academic text (1991) -
Bernstein repeatedly characterizes the reasoning in cotton arbitration decisions as "formalistic."
Academic text (2001) -
Hence, in the 1930s, as throughout legal history until that time, formalistic pleading requirements, not discovery, represented the most costly and burdensome aspect of the civil justice system.
Academic text (2010) -
But Scott C. Burris, another Temple law professor, considers the Supreme Court's strict view of disabilities covered by the ADA to be both formalistic and uninformed by the act's legislative history and prior practice under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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5.3
Based on precise rules and symbols used in math and computer science
Having strict traditional rules, like classical ballet
Very formal and fixed like a ritual
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word formalistic comes from formal, which is built on form meaning 'shape' or 'rule', and the ending -istic is like in artistic, meaning 'about a style'. So formalistic describes a way of doing things that follows set 'forms' or 'rules' closely, for example in art or ceremonies that put order before personal feeling.