Describing Wordsfor Formalism

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Here are some adjectives for formalism: stagnant, uninspired, hierarchical and liturgical, rigid byzantine, routine or heartless, greater platonic, stiff and symmetrical, dangerous academic, sensuous academic, every-day, stereotyped, over-practical, painfully individualistic, solicitous and premeditated, rigid pharisaical, cold but conscientious, tiresome ritual, gorgeous rigid, excess legal, scholastic, schematic, dry wearisome, hopeless logical, foolish conventional, dry and meaningless, non-ethical ceremonial, empty and abstract, barren and antiquated, precise and dreary, hollow and superstitious, matiie-matical, merely doctrinaire, obstinate legal. You can get the definitions of these formalism adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to formalism (and find more here).

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Words to Describe formalism

Below is a list of describing words for formalism. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe formalism:

stagnant, uninspired hierarchical and liturgical rigid byzantine routine or heartless greater platonic stiff and symmetrical dangerous academic sensuous academic every-day, stereotyped over-practical painfully individualistic solicitous and premeditated rigid pharisaical cold but conscientious tiresome ritual gorgeous rigid excess legal scholastic, schematic dry wearisome hopeless logical foolish conventional dry and meaningless non-ethical ceremonial empty and abstract barren and antiquated
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precise and dreary hollow and superstitious matiie-matical merely doctrinaire obstinate legal dead traditional cold and external gaudy but wearisome empty and dangerous hard and literal utter dreary cold and spiritless purely prudential neat dutch simply religious strange and primitive abstract logical stiff, wooden mathematical or logical cold, aristocratic stiff, silent mathematical or chemical cold, mechanical whole ecclesiastical quantum-mechanical public religious cold and lifeless cold, heartless same mathematical cold and distant media|val little religious mere external calmest pharisaical parrot-like unintellectual unspiritual mere empty mathematical prudential contrapuntal schematic pedantic hierarchical rigid uninspired cold, dead liturgical heartless byzantine pedagogical individualistic skeptical stagnant lifeless doctrinaire religious unconventional scholastic stereotyped barren spiritless insincere disheartening solicitous arid self-righteous metrical stilted premeditated torpid purposeless imitative severest tactical slavish degenerate superstitious flippant tepid platonic wearisome logical stiff academic perfunctory frigid empty archaic aesthetic dry antiquated dogmatic excessive hollow reverent traditional evangelical cold conventional bureaucratic dreary dead unyielding ceremonial symmetrical meaningless uneasy fictitious degrading cold-blooded theological proverbial every-day hypocritical strict external obstinate zealous abstract sectarian irrational undue prim bigoted mediæval legal jewish mechanical graceful classical merest unnatural suave powdered ignoble polite petty literal mere naive ritual conscientious precise routine theoretical cynical oriental fanciful utter structural constitutional tedious narrow conservative weary classic military decrepit grotesque superficial decent ecclesiastical intellectual negative egyptian clumsy shallow stupid ethical conscious industrial icy solemn sublime primitive old-fashioned moral dutch psychological proud chinese gaudy wooden useless aristocratic subtle outer scientific hard radical pure mild respectable chemical miserable opposite faithful political social extreme elegant german rude necessary official italian western smooth dangerous vain silent rapid tight dull quaint intense delightful british distant unknown powerful standard odd french magnificent heavy strange high general less certain

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Words to Describe formalism

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "formalism" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "formalism" are: stagnant, uninspired, hierarchical and liturgical, rigid byzantine, routine or heartless, and greater platonic. There are 253 other words to describe formalism listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe formalism suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "formalism" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many formalism adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is formalism?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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