perfectionism
/pəˈfɛkʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
1Refusal to accept any standard short of perfection.That is the cornerstone of his epic career, his attention to detail, his innate perfectionism and his belligerent refusal to be beaten, whatever the opposition....
- You might even get a handle on your perfectionism by doing a short stint with a psychologist.
- Women driven by impulsive behavior and perfectionism have higher odds of developing both problems.
1.1 Philosophy A doctrine holding that perfection is attainable, especially the theory that human moral or spiritual perfection should be or has been attained.The spiritual perfectionism of her system has dual aspects: metaphysical and moral....
- When we forget that our longing for the good and the true is grounded in the beautiful, the spiritual life degenerates into moralism and perfectionism.
- Nor did perfectionism sustain an essentialist notion of the self; instead, it often contested it in order to conceive of the self as intersubjective, formed in response, traced by the words of others.