Definitions
the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
Word origin
From formal + -ism.
Used in a sentence
“Heisenberg seems to have been motivated by his intense annoyance that Schrödinger's more intuitive version of quantum theory was more widely accepted than his own, even though both formalisms led to the same results.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Strict rule focus”9 letters
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