| 单词 | fallibility |
| 释义 | fallibility (once / 22093 pages) n Fallibility is the tendency to be wrong or make mistakes. Your fallibility in guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar means you can't count on getting the number right and winning a prize. Fallibility is a quality that everyone has, since we all make misjudgments from time to time. You might remark on the fallibility of your little brother's plan to row a boat from Connecticut to Florida, especially if there's a hole in the boat and he's not a strong swimmer. The plan, in other words, has too many errors to work well. The Latin root is fallibilis, "liable to err or deceitful." WORD FAMILYfallibility: fallibilities+/fallible: fallibility, infallible/infallibility: infallibilities/infallible: infallibility, infallibly USAGE EXAMPLES“I goofed,” Gingrich said in a rare admittance of fallibility. Salon(Dec 22, 2016) They are artistic inspirations and reminders of fallibility in a world that adores him. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) And a conversation in Nguyen’s living room can skip across the geographies, sins and fallibilities of a vexing world. Los Angeles Times(Nov 14, 2016) n the likelihood of making errors Ant|Hypo|Hyper infallibility the quality of never making an error errancy fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness the trait of not being dependable or reliable |
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