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Perfection vs Ideality - What's the difference?

perfection | ideality |

As nouns the difference between perfection and ideality

is that perfection is 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 while ideality is (uncountable) the quality or state of being ideal.

As a verb perfection

is (obsolete|transitive) to perfect.

perfection

Noun

(en 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 .
  • A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
  • What tongue can her perfections tell? -
  • The highest degree of excellence.
  • to imitate a model to perfection

    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 * infallibility

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To perfect.
  • (Foote)
  • * (William Woty)
  • Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned , though a virgin's name / They cannot boast
    (Webster 1913)

    References

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    ideality

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.
  • (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection.
  • The conceptive faculty.
  • Trivia

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

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