perfectionist

English

Etymology

perfection +‎ -ist

Noun

perfectionist (plural perfectionists)

1. One who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
2. (philosophy) One who thinks that moral perfection can be attained in this life.
3. (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.

Related terms

• perfectionism
• perfectionistic

Translations

person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect

• 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 zhǔyìzhě), 完美主义者 (zh) (wánměi zhǔyì zhě)

• Czech: perfekcionista m, perfekcionistka f
• Danish: perfektionist c
• Estonian: perfektsionist, täiuslikkuseihaleja
• Finnish: perfektionisti (fi)
• French: perfectionniste (fr) m or f
• German: Perfektionist (de) m, Perfektionistin f
• Greek: τελειομανής (el) m or f (teleiomanís), τελειοθήρας m (teleiothíras)
• 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)
• Kurdish:
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• 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
• Ukrainian: перфекціоні́ст m (perfekcioníst), перфекціоні́стка f (perfekcionístka)

Adjective

perfectionist (comparative more perfectionist, superlative most perfectionist)

1. Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.

   perfectionistic parents

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:perfectionist.
2. (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.

Translations

inclined or related to perfectionism

• Arabic: كَمَالِيّ (kamāliyy)
• Catalan: perfeccionista
• Czech: perfekcionistický
• Danish: perfektionistisk
• Finnish: perfektionistinen
• French: perfectionniste (fr)
• German: perfektionistisch (de)
• Italian: perfezionista (it), perfezionistico
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• Polish: perfekcjonistyczny
• Portuguese: perfeccionista
• Romanian: perfecționist (ro)
• Russian: перфекциони́стский (ru) (perfekcionístskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перфекционѝстичкӣ

  Roman: perfekcionìstičkī (sh)

• Spanish: perfeccionista (es)