[U] a style or method in art, music, literature, science, etc. that pays more attention to the rules and the correct arrangement and appearance of things than to inner meaning and feelings:
The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling.
formalist noun
formalist adjective [usuallybeforenoun]:
formalist theory
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