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There is a very nice word describing a person who is too concerned about being a perfectionist. I had once read it somewhere, thought my grey cells would be effective enough and didn't write it down.
Could someone please help?
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Anankastic?
(Oh, I'll just be SO UPSET if I get this wrong!)
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Anankastic is more of a compulsive disorder. Could probably be of any type.
Ever so elusive the word is!!
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>too concerned about being a perfectionist.
from the Wonderful World of Pantophobia:
atelophobia - the fear of error or imperfection [fr. Gk atelos, imperfect]
hence, atelophobe - the driven perfectionist; one with a morbid fear of having things less than perfect
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Atelophobe--sounds like somebody who's afraid of telephones!
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...afraid of telephones!
Or antelopes.
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Once upon a time, back in about the 5th Century, there were fierce tribes of Mongol horsemen who rode across what is now Europe, raping and sacking and pillaging and generally having a very good time at the expense of the local residents. Several of their leaders became famous in the sense that they were feared by Western Europeans who did not wish to be raped, sacked and pillaged. One of these was Atelo, a descendant of Atilla, and the fear of him was so widespread and intense that 5th Century psychiatrists defined it in their diagnostic manual as atelophobia.
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there's little doubt that atelophobes everywhere are avoiding this thread as though it were the plague.
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Sorry, sorry, esp. to you, ujwalm; not a very nice thing to do to a new post-er*--my bad! (Although I did note that your question had in fact been answered, or so I thought.) I guess I won't tell you what Father Steve's Skywalker post reminded me of...
*I still refuse to call a person a poster.
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