Definition of Formalism. Meaning of Formalism. Synonyms of Formalism

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Definition of Formalism

Formalism
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.

Meaning of Formalism from wikipedia

- Look up formalism or formalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Formalism may refer to: Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive...
- Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of...
- In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style. Its discussion also includes the way objects are made and their...
- Russian formalism was a school of literary theory in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian...
- The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary...
- The term formalism describes an emphasis on form over content or meaning in the arts, literature, or philosophy. A practitioner of formalism is called...
- Mathematical formalism can mean: Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), a general philosophical approach to mathematics Formal logical systems, in mathematical...
- New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid-1950s and flowered in the 1960s. Buildings designed in that style...
- In theoretical physics, the Batalin–Vilkovisky (BV) formalism (named for Igor Batalin and Grigori Vilkovisky) was developed as a method for determining...
- New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry...