| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
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accomplishment, actualization, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, materialization, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, ripeness, satisfaction, success |
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failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
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ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
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childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
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accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
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damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill; eagerness |
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address, adroitness, alacrity, aptness, deftness, dexterity, dispatch, ease, eloquence, expedience, expedition, facility, fitness, fluency, good will, handiness, inclination, keenness, maturity, preparation, preparedness, promptitude, promptness, prowess, quickness, rapidity, ripeness, sleight, volubility, willingness |
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discouragement, unpreparedness |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adolescent, adult, adultoid, beardless, brephic, budding, callow, ephebic, full, grown up, hebrephrenic, impuberal, in one's prime, in one's teens, junior, juvenile, manly, marriageable, matronly, mature, middle, neanic, neotelnic, neotenic, nubile, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, pedomorphic, prepubescent, pubescent, sappy, seasoned, underage, virile, viripotent, womanly, yeanling, young, youngster, youthful
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| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bent upon, content, cordial, corrigible, disposed, docile, eager, earnest, easily persuaded, easy, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favorably minded, forward, genial, gracious, gratuitous, hearty, in the humor, in the mind, in the mood, in the vein, inclined, minded, nothing loth, persuadable, persuasible, predisposed, propense, ready, spontaneous, suasible, tractable, unasked, unforced, voluntary, willing
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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Antonyms: |
imperfection |
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