infallibility

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌfæləˈbɪləti/, /ˌɪnˌfæləˈbɪləti/

Noun

infallibility (usually uncountable, plural infallibilities)

1. The property of being infallible; the ability to never make a mistake.

   Synonyms: faultlessness, perfection

   Antonym: fallibility

   • 1977 December 10, Kate Gyllensvard, Richard Millen, “Blue Collar, White Collar, Lavender Collar: A Look At The Gay Work Force”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 11:

     The myth of the infallibility and objectivity of medicine and all science has come to replace religious myths.

Related terms

• papal infallibility

Translations

the ability to never make a mistake

• Catalan: infal·libilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無錯誤／无错误 (wúcuòwù)

• Dutch: onfeilbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: erehtymättömyys (fi)
• French: infaillibilité (fr) f
• German: Unfehlbarkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: tévedhetetlenség (hu)
• Japanese: 無謬 (ja) (mubyū), 完璧 (ja) (kampeki)
• Manx: neushaghrynys m
• Polish: nieomylność (pl) f
• Russian: непогреши́мость (ru) f (nepogrešímostʹ), безоши́бочность (ru) f (bezošíbočnostʹ)
• Spanish: infalibilidad f
• Swedish: ofelbarhet (sv) c