Formality vs Etiquette - What's the difference?
formality | etiquette |
(uncountable) The state of being formal.
Something said or done as a matter of form.
A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.
A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
As nouns the difference between formality and etiquette
is that formality is (uncountable) the state of being formal while etiquette is tag, label.formality
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(wikipedia formality)Noun
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* *etiquette
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(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.