Associations to the word «Perfection»

Wiktionary

PERFECTION, noun. 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.
PERFECTION, noun. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
PERFECTION, noun. The highest degree of excellence.
PERFECTION, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To perfect.

Dictionary definition

PERFECTION, noun. The state of being without a flaw or defect.
PERFECTION, noun. An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept.
PERFECTION, noun. The act of making something perfect.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats