"perfectability" meaning in All languages combined

See perfectability on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From perfect + -ability. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|perfect|ability}} perfect + -ability Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} perfectability (uncountable)
  1. The state or quality of being able to be perfected. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-perfectability-en-noun-pzszqK-I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ability, Pages with 1 entry
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "perfect",
        "3": "ability"
      },
      "expansion": "perfect + -ability",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From perfect + -ability.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "perfectability (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ability",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter V, in Three Men on the Bummel",
          "text": "He had noticed in his circle many an otherwise promising union result in disappointment and dismay, purely in consequence of the false estimate formed by bride or bridegroom concerning the imagined perfectability of the other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Sax Rohmer, chapter III, in The Golden Scorpion",
          "text": "The man who has learned the Fifth Secret of Rache Churan—who has learned how to control his will—holds a power absolute and beyond perfectability.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Allen Johnson, A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Yale University Press, page 19",
          "text": "In him as in his two intimates, Gallatin and Madison, there was a touch of that philosophy which colored the thought of reformers on the eve of the French Revolution, a naive confidence in the perfectability of man and the essential worthiness of his aspirations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being able to be perfected."
      ],
      "id": "en-perfectability-en-noun-pzszqK-I",
      "links": [
        [
          "perfect",
          "perfect"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perfectability"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "perfect",
        "3": "ability"
      },
      "expansion": "perfect + -ability",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From perfect + -ability.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "perfectability (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ability",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter V, in Three Men on the Bummel",
          "text": "He had noticed in his circle many an otherwise promising union result in disappointment and dismay, purely in consequence of the false estimate formed by bride or bridegroom concerning the imagined perfectability of the other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Sax Rohmer, chapter III, in The Golden Scorpion",
          "text": "The man who has learned the Fifth Secret of Rache Churan—who has learned how to control his will—holds a power absolute and beyond perfectability.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Allen Johnson, A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Yale University Press, page 19",
          "text": "In him as in his two intimates, Gallatin and Madison, there was a touch of that philosophy which colored the thought of reformers on the eve of the French Revolution, a naive confidence in the perfectability of man and the essential worthiness of his aspirations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being able to be perfected."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "perfect",
          "perfect"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perfectability"
}

Download raw JSONL data for perfectability meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.