formalisticadj.
/ˌfɔːmlˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌfɔrməˈlɪstɪk/ Characterized by formalism.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [adjective] > observing slavishly
ceremonious1553
ritualistic1844
formalistic1856
spiky1893
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective] > conforming to a standard rule > conforming to prescribed forms > merely
fashional?1607
fashionable1608
fashionarya1640
formal1649
pro forma1823
formalistic1856
formalist1900
the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > characterized by theories of or approaches to
physico-mathematical1660
analytical1694
Bernoulli1749
analytic1761
Boolean1851
Sturmian1853
Bernoullian1876
Fermatian1887
Grassmannian1894
number-theoretic1899
Cantor1902
Cantorian1912
Tauberian1913
Thiessen1923
intuitionist1926
metamathematical1926
finitist1931
number-theoretical1936
finitistic1937
proof-theoretic1940
formalistic1941
Gödelian1942
constructivist1943
constructivistic1944
game-theoretical1946
game-theoretic1950
finitary1952
perturbation-theoretic1964
perturbation-theoretical1968
constructive1979
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period
classical1546
pastoral1566
classic1597
Medicean1652
romantic1812
tedesco1814
realistic1829
realista1832
pseudo-classic1833
classicist1838
pseudo-classical1838
renaissant1839
modernist1848
post-classic1850
post-classical1851
pseudo-Gothic1853
classicizing1865
classicistic1866
serio-grotesque1873
geometric1877
neoclassical1877
modernistic1878
neoclassic1878
pseudo-archaic1878
William Morris1883
protocorinthian1884
veristic1884
William and Mary1886
Yuan1888
romanticistic1889
veritistic1894
auto-destructive1895
pre-Romantic1895
Trajanic1906
neo-realistic1909
New Romantic1909
neo-realist1912
futuristic1915
postmodern1916
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
proto-Romantic1920
expressionistic1921
modernista1924
super-realist1925
superrealistic1925
postmodernist1926
proto-Baroque1926
post-symbolist1927
pre-modernist1927
surrealistic1930
Renaissancist1932
Colonial Revival1934
neo-baroque1935
socialist-realist1935
social realist1949
social realistic1949
kitchen sink1954
William IV1955
formalistic1957
Zhdanovite1957
neo-Dadaist1960
neo-modernist1960
William Morrisy1960
neo-Dada1962
Zhdanovist1966
conceptual1969
conceptualist1973
po-mo1987
pathetic1990
1856 S. Winkworth Life Tauler in Tauler's Serm. (1857) 107 Partakers of a spiritual in opposition to a formalistic piety.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. Comm. 516 Its shortcoming was not so much its formalism (the following system was equally formalistic).
1941 R. Courant & H. E. Robbins What is Math.? ii. 88 In some way or other,..even under the most uncompromising formalistic, logical, or postulational aspect, constructive intuition always remains the vital element in mathematics.
1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxi. 77 The resolution [of 10 Feb. 1948] went on to censure for their ‘formalistic perversions and anti-democratic tendencies’ all the more prominent Soviet composers.
1962 Listener 19 July 115/2 The Sixth [Symphony of Shostakovich] was denounced as empty and ‘formalistic’.
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