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formalism

English

  1. 🔊 the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
  2. 🔊 the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
  3. 🔊 (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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 formalismo formalism