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perfunctoriness

perfunctoriness noun: the characteristic or state of being perfunctory.

Noun

perfunctoriness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic or state of being perfunctory.
    • 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.1894, Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, section VI, page 121
    • Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom.1901, Edith Wharton, “The Recovery”, in Crucial Instances

perfunctoriness meaning in Tamil

perfunctoriness in Tamil

விருப்பீடுபாடிலாச் செயன்மை, ஆர்வுறாச் செயன்மை, ஈடுபாடின்மை

Synonyms of perfunctoriness

Origin of perfunctoriness

From perfunctory + -ness.

Questions about perfunctoriness

What does perfunctoriness mean?
Perfunctoriness means the characteristic or state of being perfunctory.
What is perfunctoriness in Tamil?
Perfunctoriness in Tamil is விருப்பீடுபாடிலாச் செயன்மை, ஆர்வுறாச் செயன்மை, ஈடுபாடின்மை. See Perfunctoriness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is perfunctoriness?
Perfunctoriness is a noun.

Words near perfunctoriness in the dictionary

  1. perfuming
  2. perfumista
  3. perfumistas
  4. perfumy
  5. perfunctorily
  6. perfunctoriness
  7. perfunctorious
  8. perfunctoriously
  9. perfunctory
  10. perfusability
  11. perfusable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfunctoriness (page history and authors); perfunctoriness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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