Usually means: Obsessive desire for flawless execution.
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  1. perfectionist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perfectionist: Merriam-Webster
  3. perfectionist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perfectionist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perfectionist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perfectionist, perfectionist: Wordnik
  7. perfectionist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perfectionist: Wiktionary
  9. perfectionist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. perfectionist: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. perfectionist: Dictionary.com
  12. perfectionist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Perfectionist (Natalia Kills album), Perfectionist (album), Perfectionist, The Perfectionist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Perfectionist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. perfectionist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. perfectionist: Rhymezone
  17. perfectionist, perfectionist (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. perfectionist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. PERFECTIONIST: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. perfectionist: FreeDictionary.org
  21. perfectionist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. perfectionist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perfectionist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perfectionist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. perfectionist: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perfectionist: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See perfectionism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
noun:  (philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
noun:  (US, historical) 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.
adjective:  Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
adjective:  (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.

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