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The capability of becoming perfect
Answer for the clue "The capability of becoming perfect ", 14 letters:
perfectibility
Word definitions for perfectibility in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The possibility of achieving perfection.
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 ]
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.