Meaning of Perfectibility | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The possibility of achieving perfection.
   countable, uncountable
2. Perfectionism.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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