Formalism
['fɔːm(ə)lɪz(ə)m] or ['fɔrməlɪzəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms.
(noun.) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented.
(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications.
編輯:利瓦伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
哈恩編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Rigidity, ceremoniousness, pomposity, externalism, parade, punctilio
ANT:Simplicity, unostentatiousness, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness
錄入:卢卡斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Thou never had one, Pilar told him, the insults having reached the ultimate formalism in Spanish in which the acts are never stated but only implied. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Formalism sets in as you move east and south into the older and more settled communities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The very air of America would seem to be a guarantee against formalism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the bogs of technical stupidity and empty formalism are always near and always dangerous. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Without some new dynamic force America, for all her tradition, is not immune to a hardening formalism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
艾琳編輯