The meaning of PERFECTION is the quality or state of being perfect. How to use perfection in a sentence.

If something is done to perfection, it is done very well and happens exactly as planned:

A perfectly black body; and a perfect circle Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence. The term designates a range of diverse, if often kindred, …

Definition of perfection noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. The quality or condition of being perfect. 2. The act or process of perfecting: Perfection of the invention took years. 3. A person or thing considered to be perfect. 4. An instance of excellence.

If you say that something is perfection, you mean that you think it is as good as it could possibly be. The house and garden were perfection.

There are 12 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun perfection, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

4 days ago · William Ellery Channing, “Self-Culture” (1838). Perfection is the object always proposed, though possibly unattainable; hitherto at least, certainly unattained. However, those …

Perfection is a flawless state where everything is exactly right. It can also be the action of making something perfect. Since perfect things are without fault or flaw, perfection is a perfect …

to perfection : in a way or to a degree that is exactly right The steak was cooked to perfection. [=was perfectly cooked]