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单词 fallibility
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fallibilityn.

Brit. /ˌfalᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌfæləˈbɪlədi/
Forms: 1600s fallibilitie, 1600s– fallibility.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fallible adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < fallible adj. (with form after its etymon post-classical Latin fallibilis) + -ity suffix.Compare post-classical Latin fallibilitas deceptiveness, uncertainty, fallacy (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), French faillibilité (13th cent. in Old French, subsequently from 1697), Spanish falibilidad (first half of the 17th cent.), Portuguese falibilidade (1694), Italian fallibilità liability to error (1656–7), all in sense ‘liability to error’.
The state or fact of being fallible; liability to error; (occasionally) an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > liability to err
fallibility1608
slipperiness1612
fallacy1651
errableness1654
errability?1706
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun]
misnimming?c1225
errora1340
defaulta1387
balkc1430
fault1523
jeofail1546
errat1548
trip1548
naught1557
missa1568
missinga1568
slide1570
snappera1572
amiss1576
mistaking1579
misprize1590
mistake1600
berry-block1603
solecism1603
fallibility1608
stumblea1612
blota1657
slur1662
incorrectnessa1771
bumble1823
skew1869
(to make) a false step1875
slip-up1909
ricket1958
bad1981
1608 J. White Way to True Church 293 For so Gods spirit should manifestly deceiue vs, and..in giuing testimony, be subiect to the same fallibilitie that ours is.
1634 E. Knott in W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants iv. §14 Nothing of the Churches Visibility or Invisibility, Fallibility or Infallibility.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. i. 131 Those Evidences of Fact..have or may have their several allays and fallibilities.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ix. 409 Tho' there be a great deal of Fallibility in the Testimony of Men.
1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. xiv. 355 The Fallibility, which sometimes attends this method of distinguishing.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 208 Taking the fallibility of judges and lawyers into his heart,..can any man declare..upon his oath, that Peytel was guilty?
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty i. 18 The fallibility of what is called the moral sense.
1904 Christian Reg. (Boston) 2 June 595/2 They were only men with their share of fallibilities.
1982 Times 5 July 11/6 Man's..striving constantly to impose order on chaos..is undermined by..human foible and fallibility.
2011 G. Gray Skyjack (2012) 11 In one impulsive action, the lone skyjacker was able to show the fallibility of the costly flying machines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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