What's the difference between perfectionist and propensity?
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.
Propensity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(2) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(3) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
(4) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
(5) The stroma has a propensity to accumulate fluid and to create macroscopic cystic spaces.
(6) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
(7) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(8) The polymorphisms seen could provide useful linkage markers in locating the chromosomal sites of the genetic loci responsible for raised blood pressure in the SHR and the propensity to strokes in the SHRSP.
(9) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(10) The propensity for narcolepsy, a clinical sleep disorder of unknown etiology, is virtually totally included within the HLA-DR2,DQw1 (DRw15,DQw6) phenotype.
(11) Patients with well-differentiated adenosquamous carcinoma persisted in having a worse prognosis (58.3% ten-year survival rate), compared with adenocarcinoma (84.3% ten-year survival rate), which was explained by the propensity of adenosquamous carcinoma to deeply invade the myometrium.
(12) College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the "propensity to argue controversial topics" and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables.
(13) Mating propensity in eight all-female laboratory lines was measured.
(14) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(15) However, CGS 19755 did not show a unique propensity for learning and memory disruption compared to other anticonvulsants.
(16) The results of ecological studies appear to be more consistent that those dealing with "specific" psychosomatic disorders and suggest that man has a general psychophysical propensity to disease.
(17) The propensity for specific fragmentation of peptide D seems to be correlated to the repetitive sequence, (Gly-Ser)2.
(18) This work clearly demonstrates the greater propensity of trans-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) to form histone-histone and histone-DNA crosslinks compared with the antitumor active cis isomer, which binds first to the DNA and only forms crosslinks to the histones when the nucleosome core is heavily loaded with platinum.
(19) The rapid progression of disease, the high incidence of micrometastases (over 80%) at diagnosis, and the propensity of hematogenous spread to the bone marrow and the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the clinico-pathologic 'clusters' associated with particular presenting sites distinguish the pediatric forms of disease.
(20) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.