Stringency and Formality

noun

• A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.
  • synonyms: tightness
• Conscientious attention to rules and details.
  • synonyms: strictness

noun

• A requirement of etiquette or custom.
  • usage: "a mere formality"
  • synonyms: formalities
• A manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies.
  • usage: "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention"
  • synonyms: formalness
• Compliance with formal rules.
  • usage: "courtroom formality"

• (n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
• (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal or sacerdotal.
• (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
• (n.) The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.
• (n.) Form without substance.
• (n.) That which is formal; the formal part.
• (n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
• (n.) The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.