perfection

American  

[per-fek-shuhn] / pərˈfɛk ʃən /

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.

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perfection British  

/ pəˈfɛkʃən /

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

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Other Word Forms

• hyperperfection noun
• nonperfection noun
• superperfection noun

Etymology

Origin of perfection

First recorded in 1175–1225; from Latin perfectiōn-, stem of perfectiō “completion, finishing”; equivalent to perfect + -ion; replacing Middle English perfeccioun, perfectiun, from Anglo-French, from Latin, as above

Example Sentences

"If we only look at his paintings, we see this supreme, sublime beauty and perfection," she told AFP.

From Barron's

He has written about them three decades later and, at only 150 pages, “A Scandal in Königsberg” is a book of miniature perfection.

From The Wall Street Journal

Music is about feeling, it’s not about perfection.”

From Salon

The pursuit of perfection flies in the face of a critical lesson sports should teach.

From The Wall Street Journal

That perfection of air and climate that lured filmmakers here in the first place was being lost in a brown miasma.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• accomplishment
• evolution
• excellence
• fulfillment
• ideal
• integrity
• precision
• purity
• quality
• superiority
• supremacy
• transcendence
• virtue