perfectionnisme
French, noun/pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nism/
perfectionnisme is spelled P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-I-S-M-E (15 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 74,663rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perfectionnisme is a French masculine noun meaning “perfectionism (a dislike for anything less than perfection)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tendance à estimer inacceptable un travail qui ne s’approche pas de la perfection”.
What does perfectionnisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperfectionism (a dislike for anything less than perfection)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tendance à estimer inacceptable un travail qui ne s’approche pas de la perfection.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of perfectionnisme
- perfectionnismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perfectionnisme?
- /pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nism/
- /pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nizm/
- \pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nizm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to perfectionnisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perfectionnisme in French?
perfectionnisme appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).