fallibility

/ˌfælɪˈbɪlɪti/

Other forms: fallibilities

Fallibility is the tendency to be wrong or make mistakes. Your fallibility in guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar means you can't count on getting the number right and winning a prize.

Fallibility is a quality that everyone has, since we all make misjudgments from time to time. You might remark on the fallibility of your little brother's plan to row a boat from Connecticut to Florida, especially if there's a hole in the boat and he's not a strong swimmer. The plan, in other words, has too many errors to work well. The Latin root is fallibilis, "liable to err or deceitful."

Definitions of fallibility

1. noun

   the likelihood of making errors
   antonyms:

   infallibility

   the quality of never making an error

   types:

   errancy

   fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err

   type of:

   undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness

   the trait of not being dependable or reliable