fallibility
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- noun
- /ˌfælɪˈbɪləti/
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falibilidad
- Do we Democrats recognize the fallibility of public opinion in discerning character?
- human fallibility
You know, it really it, it delivers the goods because it's always it's always self aware of its fallibility.
- You know, it really it, it delivers the goods because it's always it's always self aware of its fallibility.
- You're and you're, you have to say, I'm willing to have that fallibility in myself happened.
Examples
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Teachers who underestimate their own fallibility and overestimate the nobility of their own motives make bad company for the young.
Academic text (1995) -
Obviously, for Precrime to function, there can't be any suggestion of fallibility.
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Nor does it respect the humanity and fallibility of teachers and learners.
Academic text (2002) -
And I wish I had known about Nigel's fallibility when I was a young writer.
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Given human fallibility, however, the burden of proof rests on those who would use violence.
Academic text (2002) -
Hill's analysis teaches us a great deal about the human fallibility that often accompanies the pursuit of great things.
Academic text (2011) -
There is a refusal to acknowledge what mainstream feminism is really about or the fallibility of its ideology.
Blog text (31) -
Within oral storytelling, characters are given a life that manifests itself in a mix of virtues and fallibilities.
Academic text (1997) -
Natarajan discreetly left the hold, leaving the captain to contemplate the fallibility of righteous indignation.
Fiction book (1999) -
Recognizing our fallibility helps us learn from our mistakes and grow as individuals.
Synonyms
A tendency to make mistakes
Antonyms
How Fallible
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fallibility comes from a Latin root fall- meaning 'to deceive', the same root you can see in the common words false and fallacy. So fallibility means being 'able to be wrong' or likely to make mistakes.