資料來源 : pyDict
拘泥形式,形式主義,虛禮
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Formalism \Form"al*ism\, n.
The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or
dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
Official formalism. --Sir H.
Rawlinson.
資料來源 : WordNet®
formalism
n 1: the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is
what should be represented [ant: {imitation}]
2: (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
3: the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or
external forms