fallibility

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Noun

fallibility

1. The state of being prone to error.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 2:

     ...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.

2. (countable) An error-generating characteristic.

Antonyms

• infallibility

Translations

• French: faillibilité
• Spanish: falibilidad

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