fallibility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FALLIBIL'ITY, noun [See Fallible.] 1. Liableness to deceive; the quality of being fallible; uncertainty; possibility of being erroneous, or of leading to mistake; as the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning or of testimony. 2. Liableness to err or to be deceived in one's own judgment; as the fallibility of men.
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