perfectionism

See also: perfecționism

English

Etymology

From perfection +‎ -ism.

Noun

perfectionism (countable and uncountable, plural perfectionisms)

1. An unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection.
2. (philosophy) A belief that spiritual perfection may be achieved during life, or that it should be striven for.

Related terms

• perfectionist
• perfectionistic

Translations

unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection

• Arabic: كَمَالِيَّة f (kamāliyya)
• Armenian: պերֆեկցիոնիզմ (perfekcʻionizm)
• Azerbaijani: mükəmməliyyətçilik
• Belarusian: перфекцыяні́зм m (pjerfjekcyjanízm)
• Catalan: perfeccionisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完美主義／完美主义 (zh) (wánměi zhǔyì)

• Czech: perfekcionismus m, perfekcionizmus m
• Dutch: perfectionisme (nl) n
• Estonian: perfektsionism, täiuslikkuse taotlus
• Finnish: perfektionismi (fi)
• French: perfectionnisme (fr) m
• German: Perfektionismus (de) m
• Greek: τελειομανία (el) f (teleiomanía), τελειοθηρία (el) f (teleiothiría)
• Hebrew: פֶּרְפֶקְצְיוֹנִיזְם (he) m (perfektzyónizem)
• Hungarian: maximalizmus (hu), perfekcionizmus
• Icelandic: fullkomnunarárátta f
• Italian: perfezionismo (it) m
• Japanese: 完全主義 (ja) (かんぜんしゅぎ, kanzenshugi), 完璧主義 (かんぺきしゅぎ, kanpekishugi)
• Korean: 완벽주의 (wanbyeokjuui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} tekûzîtî (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: perfeksjonism m

  Nynorsk: perfeksjonism m

• Persian: کمال‌طلبی (kamâl-talabi), کمال‌گرایی (kamâl-garâyi), کمالپرستی (kamâl-parasti)
• Polish: perfekcjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: perfeccionismo (pt) m
• Romanian: perfecționism (ro) n
• Russian: перфекциони́зм (ru) m (perfekcionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перфекционѝзам m

  Roman: perfekcionìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: perfekcionizmus m
• Slovene: perfekcionizem m
• Spanish: perfeccionismo m
• Swedish: perfektionism (sv) c
• Tagalog: perpeksiyonismo
• Tamil: செம்மைவாதம் (cemmaivātam)
• Ukrainian: перфекціоні́зм m (perfekcionízm)

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