perfectibility
English
editNoun
editperfectibility (countable and uncountable, plural perfectibilities)
- The possibility of achieving perfection.
- In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility.
- 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.
- (philosophy) Perfectionism.
Translations
editthe possibility of achieving perfection
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