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INFALLIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of never making an error
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("infallibility" is a kind of...):
dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness (the quality of being dependable or reliable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infallibility"):
inerrancy ((Christianity) exemption from error)
papal infallibility (belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality)
Antonym:
fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)
Derivation:
infallible (incapable of failure or error)
