perfectionist
noun
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Pronunciation: /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English perfection Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English perfectionist From perfection + -ist.
- Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
“perfectionistic parents”
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:perfectionist.”
- Inclined or related to perfectionism.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English perfection Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English perfectionist From perfection + -ist.
- Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
- Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
“I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […].”
- One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.