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FALLIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fallibility mean?
• FALLIBILITY (noun)
The noun FALLIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the likelihood of making errors
Familiarity information: FALLIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The likelihood of making errors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fallibility" is a kind of...):
undependability; undependableness; unreliability; unreliableness (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fallibility"):
errancy (fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err)
Antonym:
infallibility (the quality of never making an error)
Derivation:
fallible (likely to fail or make errors)
Context examples
Yet I have heard you speak so often with broad charity of the fallibility and frailty of humankind.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I saw his fallibilities: I comprehended them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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