Formality
Formality noun - An act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners.
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Synonyms for Formality
Use and formality are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a noun "Formality".
Use
Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.
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In Mai-Otome, most of the characters who used last names on each other in Mai-HiME now use first names, and use titles when formality is required.
- He doesn't have any use for conventional formality, but he's very serious about his real responsibilities, almost to a fault when he tries to personally resolve all of the kingdom's problems.
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Thoroughly averted in the same series, in Sparhawk's interactions with the Bhelliom - he has to use formal, archaic patterns of speech and thought or it won't deal with him, because it believes formality helps shape history.
Source: Modest Royalty
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