Meanings
plural fallibilities
- countableuncountableThe 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 - countableAn 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe likelihood of making errors
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan fal·libilitat
- fal·libilitatstate of being prone to error
Dutch feilbaarheid
- feilbaarheidstate of being prone to error
French faillibilité
- faillibilitéstate of being prone to error
Hungarian gyarlóság
- gyarlóságstate of being prone to error
Spanish falibilidad
- falibilidadstate of being prone to error
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Cite this entry
fallibility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fallibility
“fallibility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fallibility. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fallibility,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fallibility.
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