Probably almost everyone remembers the words of the notorious nanny: "Ah, what a bliss! To know that I am perfection! To know that I am an ideal!"
Are these lines synonymous or is there some difference between them? In order to answer this question, you need to understand what semantic load each of the written words carries.
Value
If we turn to the explanatory dictionary, we can find several answers to the question of what is perfection.
Firstly, it is any object, animated or not, that you can take for the ideal of something. In other words, you cannot find a single visible flaw in what you turned your attention to. It can be a charming hairstyle by a passerby or a flowering tree in a neighboring courtyard.
Everyone sees perfection in a wide variety of things. But, besides this, if someone has a positive quality or skill that does not need improvement, additional work on it, then this determines the meaning of the word "perfection".
Synonyms
The Russian language, as they know both in Russia and abroad, is very rich in synonyms. If you look for those for the term "perfection", then you can find more than a dozen options. They sound like this:
- ideal;
- perfection;
- absolute;
- sample;
- crown of creation;
- manazil;
- reference;
- unsurpassed and others.
Perhaps not all of them carry the same emotional coloring and can be used in identical situations. But still striving to enrich your own vocabulary is definitely worth it.
Sayings and aphorisms
Perfection in any area of life can cause not only admiration, but also indignation or even censure. You can find a lot of wise sayings and aphorisms about all this, many of which are more than a dozen years old:
- I know little, but what I know, I know perfectly.
- The desire to be perfect sometimes makes people completely unbearable.
- The perfect man seeks everything within himself, the insignificant in others.
- You will not get better if you do not try to do something beyond what you already know perfectly.
- There is nothing less inspiring than human perfection.
- Life is an endless series of improvements. To consider yourself ideal means to kill yourself.
So many famous people spoke of perfection around them. But even the negative connotations in these phrases should not stop you on the way to become better or achieve perfection in one or another undertaking. After all, now you absolutely know exactly what perfection is.