单词 | infallibility |
释义 | infallibility (once / 3984 pages) n If you don't make mistakes and you're never wrong, you can claim infallibility. (You're going to have to own up to self-deception, too, because, well, humans make mistakes.) If you're convinced of the infallibility of your sense of direction, you won't worry at all when you're deep in the dark woods at night and your flashlight dies. Maybe you’ll get out of the woods, but human infallibility usually doesn’t last. You may buy into your economics professor's image of infallibility until he comes to class with mismatched socks and toothpaste on his forehead. Infallibility comes from the Latin fallere, "deceive," and with infallibility, you can't be deceived. WORD FAMILYinfallibility: infallibilities+/fallibility: fallibilities/fallible: fallibility, infallible/infallible: infallibility, infallibly USAGE EXAMPLES"These leaders didn’t insist on their own infallibility or claim exclusive power over policy decisions," he said. Washington Post(Dec 05, 2016) Zidane’s power, his infallibility, is rooted in his charisma, his status. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) Mourinho’s power has always stemmed from the perception of his infallibility. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) n the quality of never making an error Ant|Hypo|Hyper fallibility the likelihood of making errors inerrancy (Christianity) exemption from error papal infallibilitybelief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality dependability, dependableness, reliability, reliableness the quality of being dependable or reliable |
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