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Abstract The aim of the present paper is to introduce and study the dual concepts of weakly automorphism invariant modules and essential tightness. These notions are non-trivial generalizations of both weakly projectivity, dual automorphism invariant property and cotightness. We obtain certain relations between weakly projective modules, weakly dual automorphism invariant modules and superfluous cotight modules. It is proved that: (1) for right perfect rings, every module is a direct summand of a weakly dual automorphism invariant module and (2) weakly dual automorphism invariant modules are precisely superfluous cotight modules.