perfunctorinessn.
/pəˈfʌŋ(k)t(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /pərˈfəŋ(k)t(ə)rinᵻs/ The quality of being perfunctory.
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun]
carelessness1561
neutrality1561
indifferency1608
perfunctoriness1626
indifference1660
unconcernment1660
slightiness1662
unconcernedness1675
nonchalance1678
upsitting1680
equilibrium1685
inconcernedness1688
unconcernness1700
unconcern1711
indifferentness1727
Laodiceanism1774
facility1791
insouciance1799
aloofness1817
don't-carishness1821
pococurantism1823
don't-careism1834
don't-care-a-damnativeness1841
nonchalantness1878
casualness1882
disinterest1889
noncurance1904
uncaringness1930
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness
superficiality1618
perfunctoriness1626
slovenliness1641
overliness1650
perfunction1656
cursoriness1727
slightness1817
slapdash1826
rough and readiness1854
superficialism1860
slapdasherya1871
sloppiness1884
slapdashness1929
1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 27 Let them watchfully decline all occasions of..perfuntorinesse in religious duties.
a1677 T. Manton Pract. Expos. Lord's-prayer (1684) Introd. 38 Much lightness and Perfunctoriness of Heart you may be guilty of.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Perfunctoriness, carelessness, negligence.
1853 J. Hamilton Life in Earnest 142 The listless round of their official perfunctoriness.
1882 Athenæum 11 Mar. 314 Nor can Justin Martyr's testimony to the gospel be compressed into a few sentences without perfunctoriness.
1923 Polit. Sci. Q. 38 426 Parliament..would come to be a chamber which ratified with increasing perfunctoriness decisions already reached.
1963 Times 23 Apr. 13/6 The perfunctoriness with which the Government recently rejected the conclusions of the unofficial inquiry conducted by Justice into the Scandinavian ombudsman procedure was disappointing.
2000 Times 7 Aug. ii. 10/4 Cai Ga's men extricate the lorry with a perfunctoriness that suggests far worse is yet to come.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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