completionism
nounEtymology From completion + -ism.
1
Video games 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 completionism2013, Alex S. Romagnoli, Gian S. Pagnucci, Enter the Superheroes: American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature, →ISBN, page 41:
- I say "almost" because, for as exhaustive an attempt at completionism as this has been, I know I don't have them all.2019, Michael J. Nazarewycz, “Preface”, in Historic Movie Theaters of Delaware, page 8:
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- There is an infections completionism to the way millennials travel; we visit one country for a short while and consider it done, ticket off.2020, Alice Vincent, “March”, in Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, →ISBN:
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- completionist