Perfectability
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Perfectability is a noun meaning The state or quality of being able to be perfected.
Meaning
The state or quality of being able to be perfected.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Synonyms for perfectability
Depending on context, synonyms include perfectibility.
Antonyms for perfectability
Common opposites include imperfectibility, imperfectability.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perfectibility, perfectibilism, effectibility, makability, capableness, ameliorability.
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