fallible
- (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate: fallible information.
Origin of fallible
Examples from the Web for fallibility
Contemporary Examples of fallibility
The furor over the 47 percent remarks, the two debate losses, and much else--these aren't signs of his misjudgment or fallibility.
An air of impotence in a president—a perception of fallibility in a time of crisis—can be political death.
A half-dozen wars showed McAllester the fallibility of other men, but it made him angrier at the world.
Historical Examples of fallibility
He has discovered that his appeal to the fallibility of sense was really an illusion.
TheaetetusPlato
Although well aware of this, he did not believe in his own fallibility.
Post HasteR.M. Ballantyne
For how can absolute infallibility be blended with fallibility?
Confessions of an Inquiring SpiritSamuel Taylor Coleridge
It is very difficult to get men to acknowledge their own fallibility.
The reality of a faculty is not disproved by its fallibility.
Theoretical EthicsMilton Valentine
fallible
- capable of being mistaken; erring
- liable to mislead
Word Origin for fallible
Word Origin and History for fallibility
fallible
early 15c., from Medieval Latin fallibilis "liable to err, deceitful." literally "that can be deceived," from Latin fallere "deceive" (see fail).