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completionism

noun

Etymology

From completion + -ism.

  1. borrowed from completio
  2. suffixed as completionism — “completion + ism”

Definitions

  1. The goal of achieving every objective in a game, as opposed to merely doing enough to win.

  2. The goal of collecting, visiting, experiencing, etc. every item of a set.

    • Lee's crossover idea was a sales bonanza, propelling Marvel readership inot unheard-of spheres of completionism
    • I say "almost" because, for as exhaustive an attempt at completionism as this has been, I know I don't have them all.
    • There is an infections completionism to the way millennials travel; we visit one country for a short while and consider it done, ticket off.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for completionism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA