Formality

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