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Automaticity vs Perfunctoriness - What's the difference?

automaticity | perfunctoriness | Synonyms |

Perfunctoriness is a synonym of automaticity.



As nouns the difference between automaticity and perfunctoriness

is that automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required while perfunctoriness is the state or characteristic of being perfunctory.

automaticity

English

Noun

(wikipedia automaticity)
  • The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required.
  • (medical) The ability of the heart muscles to contract independently of each other when separated or in unison when reattached in whole or in groups

    • 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

    References

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