perfectionism

perfectionism
n
fastidiousness, criticalness, over-criticalness, hypercriticalness, overdemandingness, de-mandingness, exactingness; fussiness, particularity, overparticularness, daintiness, finicalness, finicality, Inf. pernicketiness, meticulousness, meticulosity; minuteness, detailedness, fineness, niceness, thoroughness, completeness; painstakingness, care, carefulness, conscientiousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, punctiliousness; exactness, preciseness, precision, accuracy, accurateness, correctness; rigidness, rigidity, strictness, severeness, severity, rigorousness, rigorism.

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