different between perfection vs goodness

English

Etymology

From Old French perfection, from Latin perfecti?. Displaced native Old English fulfremednes.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??f?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

perfection (countable and uncountable, plural perfections)

1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence

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

   • No tongue can her perfections tell

Quotations

• 1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE

  THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others?;?which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.

Synonyms

• faultlessness
• flawlessness
• impeccability
• infallibility

Translations

Verb

perfection (third-person singular simple present perfections, present participle perfectioning, simple past and past participle perfectioned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To perfect.
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References

• perfection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Latin perfecti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.f?k.sj??/

Noun

perfection f (uncountable)

1. perfection

Derived terms

Related terms

• parfait

Further reading

• “perfection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

perfection f (plural perfections)

1. perfection

English

Etymology

From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English g?dnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), equivalent to good +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German g?tnass?, c?tnass? (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian ???????? (godnost?, “suitability, fitness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dn?s/, /???dn?s/

Noun

goodness (countable and uncountable, plural goodnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
2. (countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
3. (uncountable, euphemistic) God.

   Thank goodness that the war is over!

4. (Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:goodness

Derived terms

• my goodness!

Translations

Further reading

• goodness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• goodness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• goodness at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dog's nose