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pseudoservice en · NOUN

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Etymology

From pseudo- + service.

Meanings

1. (countable) Something offered or presented as a service that is not actually useful.
   • The pushing of doorbells, the recording of “contacts,” and the requirement of monthly reports all add up to expensive pseudoservices. At best they constitute a costly but useless frenzy of activity. 2015, Edward J. Latessa, Paula Smith, Corrections in the Community, page 211:
2. (qualifier:Kantian philosophy, uncountable) Formal or clerical rituals that are imagined to serve God, as distinguished from genuine good or pleasing actions.

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