Synonyms and related words :
aridity, augustness, baccalaureate service, barrenness, bleakness, bloodlessness, buckram, celebration, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, circumstance, colorlessness, commencement, consequence, convocation, courtliness, darkness, deadness, dignifiedness, dignity, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, duty, earnestness, effeteness, elevation, emptiness, empty formality, etiolation, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, flatness, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formalization, formula, formulary, function, gloom, gloominess, graduation, graduation exercises, grandeur, gravity, grimness, heaviness, heraldry, hollowness, holy rite, impersonality, importance, impressiveness, inanity, inaugural, inauguration, inexcitability, initiation, insipidity, insipidness, institution, jejunity, kingliness, leadenness, lifelessness, liturgy, loftiness, lordliness, lowness of spirit, majesty, mode of worship, moderation, momentousness, mummery, mystery, no joke, no laughing matter, nobility, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, paleness, pallor, performance, pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, practice, prescribed form, pride, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, religious ceremony, reserve, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seriousness, service, slowness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnization, solemnness, somberness, spiritlessness, staidness, starchiness, state, stateliness, sterility, stiffness, stiltedness, stodginess, stuffiness, stylization, sublimity, superficiality, taciturnity, tastelessness, tediousness, temperance, uninterestingness, unliveliness, vapidity, vapidness, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness, weight, weightiness, woodenness, worthiness