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Perfunctoriness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic or state of being perfunctory. uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From perfunctory + -ness.

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