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Perfectionist

//pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.

    "perfectionistic parents"

  2. 2
    Inclined or related to perfectionism.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. 2
    a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life. archaic

    "I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […]."

  4. 4
    One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin. US, historical

Etymology

Etymology 1

From perfection + -ist.

Etymology 2

From perfection + -ist.

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