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单词 pseudoservice
释义

pseudoservice

English

Etymology

pseudo- + service

Noun

pseudoservice (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoservices)

  1. (countable) Something offered or presented as a service that is not actually useful.
    • 2015, Edward J. Latessa, ‎Paula Smith, Corrections in the Community (page 211)
      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.
  2. (uncountable, Kantian philosophy) Formal or clerical rituals that are imagined to serve God, as distinguished from genuine good or pleasing actions.
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