fallibility

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /fæləˈbɪləti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being prone to error. countable,uncountable
    — ...they had a damnably suggestive power which was intensified by the fact of their being genuine photographs—actual optical links with what they portrayed, and the product of an impersonal transmitting process without prejudice, fallibility, or mendacity.
  2. An error-generating characteristic. countable
    — Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter.

词形变化

fallibilities plural

词汇关系

反义词
infallibility

词源

Etymology tree
English fallible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English fallibility
From fallible + -ity.
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