Usually means: Obsessive pursuit of flawless standards.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word perfectionism:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. perfectionism: Merriam-Webster
  2. perfectionism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perfectionism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perfectionism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perfectionism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perfectionism, perfectionism: Wordnik
  7. perfectionism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perfectionism: Wiktionary
  9. perfectionism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perfectionism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. perfectionism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. perfectionism: Dictionary.com
  13. Perfectionism (philosophy), Perfectionism (psychology), Perfectionism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Perfectionism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. perfectionism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. perfectionism: Rhymezone
  17. Perfectionism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. perfectionism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. perfectionism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. perfectionism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. perfectionism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perfectionism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. perfectionism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. perfectionism: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perfectionism)

noun:  An unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection.
noun:  (philosophy) A belief that spiritual perfection may be achieved during life, or that it should be striven for.

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