Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FAL-LI-BIL'I-TY
FAL-LI-BIL'I-TY, n. [It. fallibilità. See Fallible.]
- 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.
- Liableness to err or to be deceived in one's own judgment; as, the fallibility of men.
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