Perfection

Word PERFECTION
Character 10
Hyphenation per fec tion
Pronunciations /pɚˈfɛkʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Perfection"

What do we mean by perfection?

The quality or condition of being perfect. noun

The act or process of perfecting. noun

A person or thing considered to be perfect. noun

An instance of excellence. noun

Performance; accomplishment. noun

The state of being perfect, as in material, form, design, composition, construction, operation, action, qualification, etc.; that degree of excellence which leaves nothing to be desired, or in which nothing requisite is wanting; entire freedom from defect, blemish, weakness, or liability to err or fail; supreme excellence, whether moral or material; completeness or thoroughness: as, perfection in an art; fruits in perfection; the perfection of beauty: often used concretely: as, she is perfection. noun

A quality, trait, feature, endowment, or acquirement that is characterized by excellence or is of great worth or value; excellency. noun

The extreme; the highest degree; consummation: as, the perfection of cruelty. noun

In medieval music, triple rhythm or measure. See measure noun

With the highest degree of excellence or success: as, he acted the part to perfection. noun

Synonyms Perfectness, completion, consummation. noun

To complete; make perfect.

To perfect. transitive verb

The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity noun

A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. noun

In the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection. noun

The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection. noun

A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. noun

To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection. noun

To perfect. verb

The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence

A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Perfection

The word "perfection" in example sentences

_The desire of happiness, ample and complete, beyond what this world can afford, is not planted in man by defect of his nature, but by the perfection of his nature, and in view of his further perfection_. ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)

Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a _study of perfection_. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

III. vi.100 (342,9) Is your perfection] Your _perfection_, is _the highest of your excellence_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

For our purposes, however, the failure to attain perfection is not so important as the fact that the ideal exists and persists. ❋ Unknown (1951)

In the same way the drama Den fuldendtes hustru (1907) [The Wife of the Perfect One], which deals with the purifications that Buddha's wife must undergo to attain perfection, is a masterpiece. ❋ Unknown (1917)

In stating the ontological argument the term perfection has been expressly emphasized, because it may be taken to embrace both truth and goodness. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

Camazotz has indeed achieved what one character describes as “consistent perfection,” but the price of this perfection is a totalitarian nightmare, and only the misfit who accepts personal responsibility for her actions can defeat the evil that threatens to engulf her family. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Few people at your age have read, seen, and known, so much as you have; and consequently few are so near as yourself to what I call perfection, by which I only, mean being very near as well as the best. ❋ Unknown (2005)

To have to go out and execute to perfection is tough. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The other girl, Jennifer, Gemma pegged as carrying what she called the perfection gene. ❋ Deborah Darden Crombie (1994)

He came in, his handsome face radiant -- a tall, graceful man of forty, clothed with that elegant carelessness which we call perfection, so strikingly unobtrusive was his dress, so faultless and unstudied his bearing. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"Here his Royal Highness enjoyed what I call the perfection of life, sir; women, wine, and fox-hunting!" added the professor of the whip, with the leer of a true amateur. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

The “death by a thousand cuts” may be the perfect description of writing, revision and editing and the impossible pursuit of perfection is the monster at the gate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think the burden of perfection is one too many students and teachers see as a goal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even in those earlier works of fiction that create the impression in the beginning of a 'perfect' future like Brave New World or The Time Machine, or Fahrenheit 451 this perfection is revealed to be an illusion and therefore the conflict starts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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