perfectibility
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being able to be made perfect or free of defects.
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the quality or state of being able to be improved.
Example Sentences
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Johnson’s faith in human perfectibility, he told me, inspired him to work to regain his strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The title of the book comes from a quote by John Locke — “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins” — and Weissmann’s suggested solutions reflect his own faith in the perfectibility of institutions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
The communitarian movement was an unusual but emblematic example of the era’s faith in the power of love and reason to remake society around the principle of human perfectibility.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Both believe in the perfectibility, if not of man, then of the international system.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2016
Encoded in that molecule were the loci of human perfectibility and vulnerability: once we learned to manipulate this chemical, we would rewrite our nature.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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