Verboticism: Perfaultion

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DEFINITION: To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success.

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Perfaultion

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: per-fault-shun

Sentence: Her tendency to over-pluck her eyebrows is a perfualtion. Now after years of tweezing, plucking and pulling, her eyebrows won't even grow at all.

Etymology: perfection + fault

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