pseudoservice
nounEtymology From pseudo- + service.
1
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
Formal or clerical rituals that are imagined to serve God, as distinguished from genuine good or pleasing actions.
Kantian philosophy