Synonyms & related words for perfunctoriness

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Words related to perfunctoriness

Explore words related to perfunctoriness — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include perfunctory, cursory, cursoriness, percursory, halfhearted, superficial, banal, platitudinous. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does perfunctoriness come from?

The word perfunctoriness breaks down into 4 roots of Latin and Old English origin: per-, from Latin per (“through, away”); funct, from Latin fungi (“to perform, discharge”); -ori, from Latin orius (“pertaining to”); and -ness, from Old English nes (“state, quality”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.