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Meaning of Perfectionist | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst

Definitions

  1. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
  3. One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.

Equivalents

Examples

“I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […].”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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