Definition of fallibility in English:
fallibility
noun ˌfalɪˈbɪlɪtiˌfæləˈbɪlədi
mass nounThe tendency to make mistakes or be wrong.
technology is not a cure for human fallibility
studies on the fallibility of memory and perception
Example sentencesExamples
- And he acknowledges his own fallibility, the fact that he is part of the problem, in need of radical reform, dangerously prone to evil.
- The error is only further testimony to human fallibility, however, in the process of discerning the guilty from the innocent.
- Being aware of my own fallibility makes it easier to accept shortcomings in others.
- His Honour went through the process of suggesting to the jury that the fallibility of human memory could explain the discrepancy.
- These diagnostic failures were not malpractice, but the fallibility of humans and machines.
- Future work in this area will add to our understanding of the fallibility of memories and how to spot the mistaken ones.
- "Human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations."
- Ordinarily, we can cope with fallibility by shrinking the likelihood of a mistake.
- It allows us to acknowledge our fallibility by saying that even our best-supported theories may be false: we do not have to list them.
- I think it's to the credit of both papers that they acknowledge their fallibility, but the errors in question are rather more than slips of the pen.
Definition of fallibility in US English:
fallibility
nounˌfæləˈbɪlədiˌfaləˈbilədē
The tendency to make mistakes or be wrong.
technology is not a cure for human fallibility
studies on the fallibility of memory and perception
Example sentencesExamples
- These diagnostic failures were not malpractice, but the fallibility of humans and machines.
- Being aware of my own fallibility makes it easier to accept shortcomings in others.
- Ordinarily, we can cope with fallibility by shrinking the likelihood of a mistake.
- "Human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations."
- It allows us to acknowledge our fallibility by saying that even our best-supported theories may be false: we do not have to list them.
- The error is only further testimony to human fallibility, however, in the process of discerning the guilty from the innocent.
- Future work in this area will add to our understanding of the fallibility of memories and how to spot the mistaken ones.
- I think it's to the credit of both papers that they acknowledge their fallibility, but the errors in question are rather more than slips of the pen.
- His Honour went through the process of suggesting to the jury that the fallibility of human memory could explain the discrepancy.
- And he acknowledges his own fallibility, the fact that he is part of the problem, in need of radical reform, dangerously prone to evil.