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"common-gender"
],
"word": "perfektionism"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection",
"word": "perpeksiyonismo"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "cemmaivātam",
"sense": "unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection",
"word": "செம்மைவாதம்"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perfekcionízm",
"sense": "unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "перфекціоні́зм"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"perfectionism"
],
"word": "perfectionism"
}
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