Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perfectibility

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables: per-fectibil-i-ty
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The possibility of achieving perfection.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility."
"Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth."
"In their evangelical zeal, crusaders relied upon a message of the essential morality of cleanliness, a message that was especially effective in stirring religious sentiment and that meshed well with evolutionary models of human perfectibility that were prevalent in the sciences."

Etymology

From perfect + -ibility.

Usage

Inflected Forms

perfectibilities (plural)

Derived Forms

perfectibilist

Questions

What does perfectibility mean?: The possibility of achieving perfection.
Where does perfectibility come from?: From perfect + -ibility.

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