ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Perfectibility

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Perfectibility is a noun meaning The possibility of achieving perfection.

Meaning

The possibility of achieving perfection.

More Meanings

  1. (philosophy) Perfectionism.

Example Sentences

In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility.
Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for perfectibility

Depending on context, synonyms include perfectability.

Antonyms for perfectibility

Common opposites include imperfectibility, imperfectability.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perfectability, perfectionment, perfectness, perfectiveness, imperfectability, imperfectibility.

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