fallibility
(fælɪˈbɪlɪtɪ)
[f. next + -ity. Cf. F. faillibilité.]
The state or fact of being fallible; liability to err or to mislead (in mod. usage limited to the former); an instance of the same.
| 1634 ‘E. Knott’ in Chillingworth's Relig. Prot. iv. §14 Nothing of the Churches Visibility or Invisibility, Fallibility or Infallibility. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. i. 131 Those Evidences of Fact..have or may have their several allays and fallibilities. 1725 Watts Logic ii. ix. 409 Tho' there be a great deal of Fallibility in the Testimony of Men. 1775 Harris Philos. Arrangem. Wks. (1841) 353 The fallibility which sometimes attends this method of distinguishing. 1840 Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 216 The fallibility of judges and lawyers. 1859 Mill Liberty i. 18 The fallibility of what is called the moral sense. |