Perfunctoriness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Perfunctoriness is a noun meaning The characteristic or state of being perfunctory.
Meaning
The characteristic or state of being perfunctory.
Example Sentences
Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom.
His hard-core images are delivered with a ho-hum perfunctoriness that often enervates his surfaces. . . . [H]is orgies are inert.
When at dusk she reached the Melchester station her husband was there to meet her, but in his perfunctoriness and her preoccupation they did not see each other, and she went out of the station alone.
Synonyms for perfunctoriness
Depending on context, synonyms include automaticity, mechanicality, mechanicalness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include functionlessness, desultoriness, unpurposiveness, defunctness, fruitlessness, futility.
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