pedant vs perfectionist

pedant

noun
  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

perfectionist

noun
  • Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. 

  • One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin. 

adj
  • Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards. 

  • Inclined or related to perfectionism. 

How often have the words pedant and perfectionist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )