INFALLIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infallibility mean? 

• INFALLIBILITY (noun)
  The noun INFALLIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of never making an error

  Familiarity information: INFALLIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFALLIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of never making an error

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("infallibility" is a kind of...):

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness (the quality of being dependable or reliable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infallibility"):

inerrancy ((Christianity) exemption from error)

papal infallibility (belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality)

Antonym:

fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)

Derivation:

infallible (incapable of failure or error)

 Context examples 

There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.

(White Fang, by Jack London)