Definitions
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- noun One who insists on
completion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indeed, when asked what I am, I say I'm a 'completionist' - I'm an achiever, but the achievement is exploration.
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So it's interesting that Sony appear to have decided to really exploit the 'completionist' effect with volume 8.
Nicholas Bate 2008
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We really feel that there are multiple types of gamers; there's the hardcore action gamer who will like the shape-shifting powers and the fluidity of the combat; there's also the RPG-style gamers who like to customisers who'll want to upgrade and customise the character; then there's the 'completionist' achievement hounds, and we have tons of stuff for them too - we have 130 'Web of Intrigue' targets, though only 30 are mandatory; we have 200 landmark icons to hunt down; we also have all those extra side-events for people to hunt down too.
TotalVideoGames.com 2009
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I think that, were Chekhov still around today, he would either be an obsessive, completionist player or he would stop believing his own rule.
Permanent Death, Episode 4 - Chekhov's Diamonds Ben Abraham 2009
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I think that, were Chekhov still around today, he would either be an obsessive, completionist player or he would stop believing his own rule.
Archive 2009-07-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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You can even sate some serious completionist urges; collectible card games are great for that.
D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related 2008
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Are you a completionist who wants to seek out every world or are you like me, a person who wants to just play the game, secrets be damned?
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Still, fun from a completionist standpoint, I guess.
October, Yay! delagar 2009
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I know that fans of the novels consider no roles to be small, but I think we can agree that the enthusiasm from these confirmations represent the completionist streak in us.
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So, for example, I see no reason to assume that there is a completionist drive in play, and certainly no reason then to charge that project of completion with a normative value.
uselessness commented on the word completionist
Seeing as how the Wordnik database is much larger than Wordie's (albeit in questionable ways), I feel compelled to leave my fingerprints on as much of it as possible. Not even my own prints are necessary, really; This site feels so barren in so many places that dusting as much of it as possible with even the slightest traces of humanity just seems like the ethical thing to do. Comments, pronunciations, whatever. Anything to reduce the cold, spidery feel of it all.
November 19, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word completionist
The awkward part is thinking up suitably scintillating things to say when there are so many surnames, online handles and product names in the database. Random word searches are less fun than on Wordie Classic, to be honest, although watching the left-hand Zeitgeist column go by is sometimes a workable substitute.
November 19, 2009
uselessness commented on the word completionist
We can leave our marks on words without composing scintillating comments. Yesterday I went on a small rampage of recording pronunciations for every thing Random Word threw at me (apart from foreign stuff I knew better than to guess at). I had particular fun with online handles and product names. I heartily encourage others to do the same.
If you're in a good environment for recording the audio (sometime I am, sometimes I'm not) you should do this for every word you ever come across. It only takes a few seconds. If there's already a "professional" recording for the word, and your accent/pronunciation is the same as it, there's no need to be redundant. But my experience with the random feature has been that the fast majority of words on the site have no accompanying audio at all.
November 19, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word completionist
Trouble is, as mentioned on (I think) bugs I can't actually hear the pronunciations.
November 19, 2009
uselessness commented on the word completionist
That's a shame, as it's one of my favorite things about having been Wordnikized. Hope you or the devs get it figured out soon (though it sounds like a client-side issue to me).
November 19, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word completionist
You'd think so, but it's not only cross-browser but happening on two different OS installations.
November 19, 2009
uselessness commented on the word completionist
That is weird. I'm running Safari on a Mac and it works fine for me, FWIW.
November 19, 2009
grantbarrett commented on the word completionist
The prons play for me, too, in two browsers on two OSes. Weird.
November 19, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word completionist
I'll try them from outside the university network when I take my laptop home over Christmas.
November 19, 2009