Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

perfectionism

Translate perfectionism | into German | into Italian
Definition of perfectionism

noun

[mass noun]
  • refusal to accept any standard short of perfection.
  • Philosophy a doctrine holding that perfection is attainable, especially the theory that human moral or spiritual perfection should be or has been attained.

perfectionism in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of perfectionism in the US English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

enjambement

/ ɪnˈdʒam(b)m(ə)nt /
noun
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause …