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formalism
noun
[ ˈfɔːm(ə)lɪz(ə)m ]
• excessive adherence to prescribed forms.
• "academic dryness and formalism"
• a description of something in formal mathematical or logical terms.
• "there is a formalism which expresses the idea of superposition"