Formalism Synonyms and Antonyms

fôrmə-lĭzəm
The doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. imitation

Words Related to Formalism

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. set theory
  2. logic
  3. semantics
  4. formal-logic
  5. formalization
  6. calculus
  7. axiom
  8. pi-calculus
  9. compositionality
  10. lambda-calculus
  11. ontology

Formalism Sentence Examples

  • This formalism shows itself in many ways.

  • On the one hand, worship passed into formalism and formalism into disuse.

  • It is true that his view of Greek thought is somewhat warped by Hegelian formalism.

  • Wolff's formalism is the bastard outcome of the speculation of Leibnitz, and is related to it as remotely as Scholasticism is to Aristotle.

  • They failed to develop any view which could serve either in fact or in theory as a corrective to the effect of their formalism.

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