All formalness synonyms

noun formalness

• severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
• rigor — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
• harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
• formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
• sternness — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
• solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
• acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
• gravity — the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
• seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
• coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
• inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
• stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
• asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
• grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
• rigidity — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
• inclemency — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
• decorum — Decorum is behaviour that people consider to be correct, polite, and respectable.
• protocol — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
• rigour — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
• astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
• exactness — The quality of being accurate or correct; precision.
• exactingness — The state of being exacting.
• ceremony — A ceremony is a formal event such as a wedding.
• etiquette — The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group.