perfection

[Per*fec·tion]

Perfection is a flawless state where everything is exactly right. It can also be the action of making something perfect.

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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
the act of making something perfect

Noun
an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

Noun
the state of being without a flaw or defect


n.
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.

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

v. t.
To perfect.


Perfection

Per*fec"tion , n. [F. perfection, L. perfectio.] 1. 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. 2. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. Shak.
What tongue can her perfections tell?
To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

Perfection

Per*fec"tion, v. t. To perfect. [Obs.] Foote.

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.

To perfect.

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Usage Examples

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

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Other Usage Examples

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

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