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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 errorsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FALLIBILITY (noun)


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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