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perfunctoriness

English

Etymology

perfunctory +? -ness

Noun

perfunctoriness (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being perfunctory.
    • 1894, Thomas Hardy, Life's Little Ironies, ch. 6:
      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.
    • 1901, Edith Wharton, "The Recovery" in Crucial Instances:
      Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom.
    • 2006 Nov. 30, David Cohen, "A Bit Nasty to Women, But Respectful to Dishware," New York Sun (retrieved 28 June 2011):
      His hard-core images are delivered with a ho-hum perfunctoriness that often enervates his surfaces. . . . [H]is orgies are inert.

Synonyms

  • automaticity, mechanicality, mechanicalness

References

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perfunctory

English

Etymology

From Late Latin perfunct?rius, from the past participial stem of perfungor, perfunct- (perform, carry through), from per- + fungor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /p??f??k.t(?)??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /p??f??k.t?.i/

Adjective

perfunctory (comparative more perfunctory, superlative most perfunctory)

  1. Done only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty .
    Synonyms: automatic, cursory, obligatory, pro forma, token, unthinking
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 338]:
      He then poured some wine for me to taste, and harassed me with perfunctory courtesies that had to be acknowledged.
  2. Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.
    Synonyms: haphazard, mechanical, slipshod
    Antonyms: careful, complete, thorough

Related terms

  • perfunctorily
  • perfunctoriness

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See also

  • pro forma

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