different between perfection vs ideality

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 Medieval Latin idealitas (“ideality”), from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”); see ideal and -ity.

Noun

ideality (countable and uncountable, plural idealities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.
2. (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection.
3. The conceptive faculty.

Related terms

• idea
• ideal

Translations

Trivia

Aside from the proper noun Oceania, this is the shortest five-syllable word in the English language.

References

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

Anagrams

• aedility, ædility