perfectibility

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perfectibility (countable and uncountable, plural perfectibilities)

The possibility of achieving perfection.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 110:
  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.
In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility.
(philosophy) Perfectionism.

the possibility of achieving perfection