"fallibility" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fæləˈbɪləti/ [General-American] Forms: fallibilities [plural]
Etymology: fallible + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fallible|ity}} fallible + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fallibility (countable and uncountable, plural fallibilities)
  1. The state of being prone to error. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being prone to error): fal·libilitat [feminine] (Catalan), feilbaarheid (Dutch), faillibilité [feminine] (French), falibilidade [feminine] (Galician), gyarlóság (Hungarian), жаңылыштык (jaŋılıştık) (Kyrgyz), жаңылышкандык (jaŋılışkandık) (Kyrgyz), falibilidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fallibility-en-noun-QZpR1Mg5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'state of being prone to error': 97 3
  2. (countable) An error-generating characteristic. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-fallibility-en-noun-AaPtVk-i

Inflected forms

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        "(countable) An error-generating characteristic."
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