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 noun “parent” has become a verb as many people embrace the belief that perfectibility can be approximated if parents are sufficiently diligent about child-rearing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
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
This is where Coates obviously parts company with Obama, who campaigned on the very notion of hope and the perfectibility of America.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2017
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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