What's the difference between perfectionism and perfectionist?
Perfectionism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
Example Sentences:
(1) I feel like my movies need that and they respond to that and so I don't know if I see it as perfectionism or that I like to keep working on it."
(2) Finally, a study with 77 psychiatric patients shows that self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism relate differentially to indices of personality disorders and other psychological maladjustment.
(3) The authors suggest that patterns of maternal perfectionism and self-sacrifice combined with paternal entitlement makes sexual maturity particularly threatening for female children in these families, and may partially explain the greater incidence of anorexia nervosa in women, and its explosive incidence in adolescence.
(4) A multidimensional approach to the study of perfectionism is warranted, particularly in terms of the association between perfectionism and maladjustment.
(5) It was found that the depressed patients had higher levels of self-oriented perfectionism than did either the psychiatric or normal control subjects.
(6) Twenty-three volunteer subjects were compared with 23 (matched) control subjects on self and parental ratings of anxiety, depression, shyness-sensitivity, sleeping difficulties, perfectionism, psychosomatic problems (unrelated to headache), other behavioural disturbances, major life stress events and parental expectations (i.e.
(7) The family dog is the first victim in Funny Games , several horses have their throats slit in The Time of the Wolf , and Benny's Video begins with the butchery of a squealing pig – Haneke's perfectionism required the sacrifice of three porkers.
(8) The present study employed a multidimensional approach to examine the association between perfectionism and suicide threat.
(9) The most important socioenvironmental and behavioral factors were marital turmoil in 44%, school activity in 32%, and perfectionism in 30%.
(10) Both "reclusive" – or just intensely private – and gestating movies over decades with intense perfectionism, each man has constructed a genre distinct unto itself, built on an instantly recognisable style and underpinned by complete creative control.
(11) This article describes perfectionism, or the holding of and striving for unrealistically high standards, and presents two studies undertaken to investigate the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the Perfectionism Scale (PS; Burns, 1980).
(12) Analysis of the responses reveals that attitudes to diagnostic perfectionism differ from one disease to another.
(13) The forced hold-back on part of the finance suppliers (National Health Organization and insurances) and, on the opposite side, the perfectionizing possibilities from the dental office and the dental laboratory, combined with the quality need wanted by the patients, are an area of conflict for everybody.
(14) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
(15) She has been suggested in the past as a future director of the Royal Ballet; it would be something to see her try to apply her perfectionism to others, but she says she has no desire for it.
(16) The patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder scored significantly higher than the healthy comparison subjects on all eight subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory: drive for thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction, ineffectiveness, perfectionism, interpersonal distrust, interoceptive awareness, and maturity fears.
(17) This article attempted to demonstrate that the perfectionism construct is multidimensional, comprising both personal and social components, and that these components contribute to severe levels of psychopathology.
(18) The symptomatology expresses an ongoing conflict between resistance and resignation by restlessness, aggressivity and withdrawal on the one hand, and by low self esteem, pseudo-adult behavior and perfectionism on the other.
(19) Although Jobs was idolised by Apple fans, he was not universally admired, partly because of his perfectionism, secrecy and hard-driving management style.
(20) Compared with a control group randomly selected from the remainder of the hospital patient population, obsessive-compulsive manifestations of rumination, ritualistic behavior, excessive cleanliness, excessive orderliness, perfectionism, miserliness, rigidity, and scrupulousness and self-righteousness were all significantly associated with the eating disorder patient group.
Perfectionist
Definition:
(n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even so, the perfectionist in Mourinho will have pinpointed the areas that still need work before Arsenal’s arrival at Stamford Bridge.
(2) Murray’s first double fault at deuce brought an angry response - and a pair of aces to hold for 2-1 - from one of the game’s most demanding perfectionists.
(3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(4) Then later on, when you could see that this film almost bankrupted Titanus Films, who were the producers, it was costing so much money, and he was a perfectionist, and he wouldn't give up, and he used to stand with his hand behind his back.
(5) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
(6) Lynch, a recruitment consultant, has had a rough ride with viewers for his matter-of-fact manner and sometimes apparently humourless approach: he has proved himself a perfectionist with a wide repertoire, but sometimes less-than-camera-friendly manner.
(7) It's very attractive and polished, it's giving this ideal, perfectionist view of the world as told by Abercrombie & Fitch."
(8) Meeting the demands of the show's perfectionist creator Matthew Weiner and its sharp-eyed fans can be tricky.
(9) Some widespread recurring clinical features of the various studies include; a premorbid history of perfectionistic traits, an apparently minor precipitating event; and pain involving the head, face and musculoskeletal system.
(10) I’m an emotional perfectionist – I just want things to feel as good as they possibly can for the people who are experiencing them.” He did have another vegan restaurant, in New York, called TeaNY , which he opened in 2002, with his then girlfriend.
(11) Lionel was a perfectionist; in the end, he had to clean up the original soundtrack and use that.
(12) Trump under fire: will 'perfectionist' fold at debate without polling lead?
(13) Typically, the perfectionist director was far from pleased with the movie.
(14) Nineteen studios and umpteen engineers could not satisfy guitarist Kevin Shields, who was either a perfectionist sociopath or on a lot of drugs (or both).
(15) The well-trained athlete, however, may also have a personality that is somewhat rigid, strongly goal oriented, and perfectionist.
(16) Depressed children are described as being anxious, tense, perfectionistic, and unassertive, displaying a low level of self-esteem.
(17) Put another way, he argued, in opposition to utilitarian, perfectionist and communitarian principles, that the first duty of the liberal state was to safeguard the individual's basic civil liberties, and that "the loss of freedom for some" can never be "made right by a greater good shared by others".
(18) With all the drugs, the psychological pressure and physical pain, the psyche-scouring, the perfectionist production values, the pints of gin and tonic, has Shields ever worried that he might lose his mind?
(19) Disturbed behavior at birth may also be related to many other affects which often, but not always, are secondary to anxiety or designed to defend against it: retentive, annoyed, perfectionistic, poor in contact, worried, inactive or confused behavior at birth.
(20) Riggall was clearly a fan, an auto-quoter; also a perfectionist, bothered, as we walked, that the writing on the side of a yellow school bus didn't look quite 1955 enough.