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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
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Other Words From
- hyper·per·fection noun
- nonper·fection noun
- super·per·fection noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perfection1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perfection1
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Example Sentences
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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