formality (n.)

• act
• bill
• bylaw
• canon
• celebration
• ceremonial
• ceremony
• circumstance
• civility
• code
• commencement
• conformity
• convention
• conventionalism
• conventionality
• convocation
• correctness
• criterion
• custom
• decency
• decorousness
• decorum
• decree
• demureness
• dictate
• dictation
• duty
• earnestness
• edict
• elegance
• enactment
• etiquette
• euphemism
• euphuism
• exactness
• exercise
• exercises
• exquisiteness
• form
• formal
• formalism
• formula
• formulary
• function
• graduation
• gravity
• grimness
• guideline
• heraldry
• inaugural
• inauguration
• inflexibility
• initiation
• institution
• jus
• law
• legislation
• lex
• liturgy
• maxim
• measure
• mummery
• mystery
• norm
• norma
• observance
• office
• ordinance
• overrefinement
• pedantry
• performance
• politesse
• pomp
• practice
• preciosity
• preciousness
• precision
• prescript
• prescription
• pride
• principle
• procedure
• propriety
• protocol
• punctilio
• purism
• regulation
• rigidity
• rite
• ritual
• rituality
• rubric
• rule
• ruling
• sacrament
• sedateness
• seemliness
• seriousness
• service
• soberness
• sobersides
• sobriety
• solemnity
• solemnization
• somberness
• staidness
• standard
• state
• statute
• stiffness
• strictness
• thoughtfulness
• weightiness
• wont