1. formalism

noun. ['ˈfɔrməˌlɪzəm'] the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented.

Rhymes with Formalism

• abolitionism
• absenteeism
• absolutism
• activism
• adventurism
• adventurism
• agrarianism
• alcoholism
• altruism
• amateurism
• americanism
• anachronism
• aneurism
• anglo-catholicism
• animism
• antagonism
• anthropomorphism
• anti-catholicism
• anti-catholicism
• antidisestablishmentarianism

Sentences with formalism

1. Noun, singular or mass
Immanuel Kant is one of the more important promoters of ethical formalism.

Quotes about formalism

1. Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
- George Edward Woodberry

2. formalism

noun. ['ˈfɔrməˌlɪzəm'] the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms.

3. formalism

noun. ['ˈfɔrməˌlɪzəm'] (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.