Dictates
Formality
Formality noun - An act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners.
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Dictates and formality are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dictates" instead a noun "Formality".
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There's always the patent "reaching out patting each other on the back we're-not-gay-honest hug" which seems to be endemic to all males of a certain age when formality dictates some form of physical embrace.
Source: Air Hugging
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Formality and Dictates. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dictates/formality
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