Formalism

Formalism may refer to:
 * Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary
 * Formalism (linguistics)
 * Scientific formalism
 * Formalism (philosophy), that there is no transcendent meaning to a discipline other than the literal content created by a practitioner
 * Religious formalism, an emphasis on the ritual and observance of religion, rather than its meaning.
 * Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), or mathematical formalism, that statements of mathematics and logic can be thought of as statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules.
 * Formalism (art), that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form
 * Formalism (music)
 * Formalist film theory, focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film
 * Formalism (literature)
 * New Formalism, a late-20th century movement in American poetry – sometimes called simply "Formalism"
 * Russian formalism, school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s
 * New Formalism (architecture), a mid-20th century architectural style, sometimes abbreviated to Formalism