perfectionist

English edit

Etymology edit

From perfection +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation edit

Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/

Noun edit

perfectionist (plural perfectionists)

Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. [from 20th c.]
(philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
  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 […].
(US, historical) 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. [from 19th c.]

Related terms edit

Translations edit

person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: mükəmməliyyətçi
Belarusian: перфекцыяні́ст m (pjerfjekcyjaníst), перфекцыяні́стка f (pjerfjekcyjanístka)
Catalan: perfeccionista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 完美主義者／完美主义者 (zh) (wánměi zhǔyì zhě)
Czech: perfekcionista m, perfekcionistka f
Danish: perfektionist c
Dutch: perfectionist (nl) m, perfectioniste f
Estonian: perfektsionist, täiuslikkuseihaleja
Finnish: perfektionisti (fi)
French: perfectionniste (fr) m or f
German: Perfektionist (de) m, Perfektionistin (de) f
Greek: τελειομανής (el) m or f (teleiomanís), τελειοθήρας m (teleiothíras)
Hungarian: maximalista (hu)
Icelandic: fullkomnunarsinni m
Italian: perfezionista (it) m or f
Japanese: 完全主義者 (かんぜんしゅぎしゃ, kanzenshugisha), 完璧主義者 (かんぺきしゅぎしゃ, kanpekishugisha)
Kannada: ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾವಾದಿ (kn) (paripūrṇatāvādi), ಪರಿ ಪೂರ್ಣತಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷಿ (kn) (pari pūrṇatākāṅkṣi), ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾನ್ವೇಷಕ (kn) (paripūrṇatānvēṣaka)
Korean: 완벽주의자(完璧主義者) (wanbyeokjuuija)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} tekûzkar (ku)
Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണതാവാദി (pūṟṇṇatāvādi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: perfeksjonist (no) m

Nynorsk: perfeksjonist m
Polish: perfekcjonista (pl) m, perfekcjonistka f
Portuguese: perfeccionista m or f
Romanian: perfecționist (ro) m, perfecționistă (ro) f
Russian: перфекциони́ст (ru) m (perfekcioníst), перфекциони́стка f (perfekcionístka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: перфекцио̀нист m, перфекцио̀нистица f

Roman: perfekciònist (sh) m, perfekciònistica (sh) f
Slovak: perfekcionista m, perfekcionistka f
Spanish: perfeccionista (es) m or f
Swedish: perfektionist (sv) c
Turkish: mükemmeliyetçi (tr)
Ukrainian: перфекціоні́ст m (perfekcioníst), перфекціоні́стка f (perfekcionístka)

Adjective edit

perfectionist (comparative more perfectionist, superlative most perfectionist)

Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
perfectionistic parents
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:perfectionist.
(philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.