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Mechanicalness vs Perfunctoriness - What's the difference?

mechanicalness | perfunctoriness | Synonyms |

Mechanicalness is a synonym of perfunctoriness.


As nouns the difference between mechanicalness and perfunctoriness

is that mechanicalness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being mechanical while perfunctoriness is the state or characteristic of being perfunctory.

mechanicalness

English

Alternative forms

* mechanicality

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
  • (countable) A mechanical action.

    • perfunctoriness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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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