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The capability of becoming perfect
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perfectibility
Word definitions for perfectibility in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfectibility \Per*fect`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. perfectibilit['e].] The quality or state of being perfectible.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the capability of becoming perfect; "he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man" [syn: perfectability ] [ant: imperfectibility ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The possibility of achieving perfection.
Usage examples of perfectibility.
Culture evolves, and only anthropologists can present samples of societies that fit definite cubbyholes in a line of progress and perfectibility.
I also had a suspicion that coadunation was nothing but a rehash of the romantic old notion of the perfectibility of human nature.
Lewis gave a bad jolt to the eighteenth-century doctrine of the Perfectibility of Man, and Wilde did the same to Victorian meliorism and moralism.