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Mechanicality vs Perfunctoriness - What's the difference?

mechanicality | perfunctoriness | Synonyms |

Mechanicality is a synonym of perfunctoriness.


As nouns the difference between mechanicality and perfunctoriness

is that mechanicality is while perfunctoriness is the state or characteristic of being perfunctory.

mechanicality

English

Noun

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    perfunctoriness

    English

    Noun

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  • The state or characteristic of being perfunctory.
  • * 1894 , , 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 , , "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

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