fallibility

The state of being prone to error.

Noun

  1. The state of being prone to error.
    • ...they had a damnably suggestive power which was intensified by the fact of their being genuine photographs—actual optical links with what they portrayed, and the product of an impersonal transmitting process without...
  2. An error-generating characteristic.
    • Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter. - 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer...

Origin

Etymology tree English fallible Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English fallibility From fallible + -ity.

Forms

fallibilities

Antonyms

infallibility