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perfection
[ per-fek-shuhn ]
noun
- the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.
- a perfect embodiment or example of something.
- a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.
- the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.
- the act or fact of perfecting.
perfection
/ pəˈfɛkʃən /
noun
- the act of perfecting or the state or quality of being perfect
- the highest degree of a quality, etc
the perfection of faithfulness
- an embodiment of perfection
Other Words From
- hyper·per·fection noun
- nonper·fection noun
- super·per·fection noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of perfection1
Word History and Origins
Origin of perfection1
Example Sentences
The Ising model consisted of little more than a grid of atomic arrows that could each point only up or down, yet it predicted the behaviors of real-life magnets with improbable perfection.
That’s why it is important to us to create a brand that doesn’t focus on perfection or unattainable beauty standards.
With This Is Paris, the perfection of that dream may crack a little—but not entirely.
They’re exasperating, breathtaking and raw, an opportunity for him to showcase all that makes him the closest embodiment of basketball perfection.
No one expects perfection, but the key to improving a calculation’s precision is getting further along in the infinite line of events.
But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.
It was a reminder that, as Beyoncé once sang, “Perfection is the disease of a nation,” and her family is hardly flawless.
Sometimes, that intense social judgment, that expectation of saintly loving maternal perfection, can destroy a mother.
And many point to the hyper-stylized ones in Playboy magazine as models of pussy perfection, he says.
This statement is meant to clarify the story of Adam and Eve, specifying their original perfection and subsequent fall into sin.
It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.
I did not find the Aristocracy so remarkable for physical perfection and beauty as I had been taught to expect.
In a population of angels a socialistic commonwealth would work to perfection.
The task of deceiving the Austrians was performed to perfection by Murat with the reserve cavalry and Lannes's corps.
The reader may judge of the perfection of mechanism in this plain-looking engine from the fact that a pole, with 150 lbs.
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