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fallibilities

fallibilities is the plural of fallibility.

Meaning of fallibility

Noun

fallibility (countable and uncountable, plural fallibilities)

  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 prejudice, fallibility, or mendacity.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness
  2. (countable) 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 Relationships”, in New York Times

Questions about fallibilities

What is fallibilities the plural of?
Fallibilities is the plural of fallibility.

Words near fallibilities in the dictionary

  1. fallibilisms
  2. fallibilist
  3. fallibilistic
  4. fallibilistically
  5. fallibilists
  6. fallibilities
  7. fallibility
  8. fallible
  9. fallibleness
  10. fallibly
  11. Fallin

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