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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

In the interests of any lurking atelophobes, I should point out that the online LSJ does not have an entry for atelos but for atelhs (where h = eta), and judging by the entry http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=#17008 atelhs does not seem to have meant imperfect in the sense of without error anyway.


Edit: On checking again, I see the LSJ also has ateleios, which is simply cross-referenced to atelhs.

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