Usually means: Lack of interest or care.
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  1. perfunctoriness: Merriam-Webster
  2. perfunctoriness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perfunctoriness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perfunctoriness: Wordnik
  5. perfunctoriness: Wiktionary
  6. Perfunctoriness, perfunctoriness: Dictionary.com
  7. Perfunctoriness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. perfunctoriness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Perfunctoriness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. perfunctoriness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. perfunctoriness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Perfunctoriness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perfunctoriness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The characteristic or state of being perfunctory.

Similar:
functionlessness, desultoriness, unpurposiveness, defunctness, futileness, fruitlessness, futility, superfluousness, fecklessness, unfastidiousness, more...

Opposite:
thoroughness, meticulousness, attention to detail, completeness

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Similar:
functionlessness, desultoriness, unpurposiveness, defunctness, futileness, fruitlessness, futility, superfluousness, fecklessness, unfastidiousness, more...

Opposite:
thoroughness, meticulousness, attention to detail, completeness



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