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perfection

[per-fek-shuhn]

noun

  1. the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.

  2. the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.

  3. a perfect embodiment or example of something.

  4. a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.

  5. the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.

  6. the act or fact of perfecting.



perfection

/ əˈɛʃə /

noun

  1. the act of perfecting or the state or quality of being perfect

  2. the highest degree of a quality, etc

    the perfection of faithfulness

  3. an embodiment of perfection

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • hyperperfection noun
  • nonperfection noun
  • superperfection noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of perfection1

First recorded in 1175–1225; from Latin ڱ𳦳پō-, stem of ڱ𳦳پō “completion, finishing”; equivalent to perfect + -ion; replacing Middle English perfeccioun, perfectiun, from Anglo-French, from Latin, as above
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of perfection1

C13: from Latin ڱ𳦳پō a completing, from perficere to finish
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No amount of on-paper perfection can match the cool finesse of an ex you never really got over.

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All the while, musicians — some bandmates, others hired guns — filed in and out of four different studios, as he searched for perfection.

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In her show, the slave slate known as Gilead is a veneer of perfection that’s fooling no one, “like a cake with a razor blade in it,” she says.

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But who doesn’t perk up a bit when the scrim of perfection that shields the private lives of high-profile, perfectly turned-out couples is torn, even for one brief moment?

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Why are we so obsessed with the illusion of perfection?

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