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Meaning of "perfectibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERFECTIBILITY

perfectibility  [pəˌfɛktɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERFECTIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perfectibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERFECTIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

perfectibility

Perfection

Perfection is, broadly, a state of completeness and flawlessness. The term "perfection" is actually used to designate a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts. These concepts have historically been addressed in a number of discrete disciplines, notably mathematics, physics, chemistry, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, and theology.

Definition of perfectibility in the English dictionary

The definition of perfectibility in the dictionary is the ability of becoming or being made perfect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERFECTIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERFECTIBILITY

perfect rhyme
perfect storm
perfect tense
perfecta
perfectation
perfecter
perfecti
perfectibilian
perfectibilism
perfectibilist
perfectible
perfection
perfectionate
perfectionism
perfectionist
perfectionistic
perfective
perfectively
perfectiveness
perfectivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERFECTIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of perfectibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «perfectibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERFECTIBILITY

Find out the translation of perfectibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of perfectibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perfectibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

完善性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perfectibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

perfectibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

perfectibility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

к совершенствованию
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perfectibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্ণতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perfectibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesempurnaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vervollkommnungsfähigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

perfectibility
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

완전성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sampurna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự hoàn hảo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செம்மைப்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिपूर्णता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yetkinlikçi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perfettibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

doskonałości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

до вдосконалення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

perfectibilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τελειότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

baarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

perfectibility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fullkommenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perfectibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFECTIBILITY»

The term «perfectibility» is normally little used and occupies the 129.366 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFECTIBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «perfectibility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «perfectibility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perfectibility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIBILITY»

Discover the use of perfectibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perfectibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western ...
Explores the issue of the perfectibility of nature in philosophy, psychology, and a variety of world religions.
Harold G. Coward, 2012
2
From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in ...
Examining key articulations of Enlightenment meliorism as it shifts between open-ended models of human perfectibility and « fixist conceptions of the human body, this book will appeal to a range of specialists because it draws on a variety ...
Michael E. Winston, 2005
3
The idea of perfectibility
This volume attempts to restore conceptual luster to the currently clouded idea of perfectibility.
Virginia L. Muller, 1985
4
The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human ...
"The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement.
Elliott M. Simon, 2007
5
The Perfectibility of Man
A reviewer of the original edition in 1970 of The Perfectibility of Man well summarizes the scope and significance of this renowned work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century: “Beginning with an analytic discussion ...
John Arthur Passmore, 2000
6
Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings
The balance between needs, inclinations, and the powers to satisfy them is in very large measure maintained or restored by what, in the Second Discourse, Rousseau calls "perfectibility" (Ineq. I [17]), "the specific characteristic of the human ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Gourevitch, 1997
7
Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and ...
The potential conflict between the voice of nature and the faculty of perfectibility becomes more profound when, in his later writings, Rousseau adds the moral pitch, conscience, to the voice of nature.20 Conscience delivers general moral ...
Mark Sydney Cladis, 2007
8
The Dream of the Perfect Child
Separating itself from the old idea of absolute perfection,2 human perfectibility began to speak in the language of freedom, of equality, of rational thought, of scientific progress. Epitomized in the Marquis de Condorcet's "indefinite perfectibility ...
Joan Rothschild, 2005
9
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
sess self-love, pity, and understanding, and that the faculty of perfectibility is self- love, pity, and understanding, it seems he must say that animals have the faculty of perfectibility. But he says that the faculty of perfectibility is the specific ...
Andrew Valls, 2005
10
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the ...
Freedom thus understood is possible without perfectibility. Choices might simply have no cumulative effects. But the contrary is not the case. If man's actions were simply governed by instinct or by any natural mechanical process, there could ...
Ruth W. Grant, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERFECTIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perfectibility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How a French Museum Whitewashes Le Corbusier's Anti-Semitism
... Europe with ideas related to the perfectibility of man and the standardization and rationalization of the human form: communism and fascism; ... «Forward, Jul 15»
2
The Gift Of Family Friendly, Part 2: 36 Hours In Las Vegas
I interviewed him before, and found him to be deeply dedicated to the perfectibility and soul of his cuisine. He has an open kitchen at Sensi, and is usually there, ... «Pursuitist, Jul 15»
3
The Dominant Narratives of Future Societies
... religious figure idolized by the masses, whom the state encourages them to believe in and look up to as a prophet of the perfectibility of life through technology ... «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
4
Our data has to be perfect." No, it doesn't.
That's not such as issue, as the perfectibility of financial transaction data is within reach, but only because of the huge effort that goes into its ... «ComputerWeekly.com, Jul 15»
5
Evil, Foreign and Domestic
These people believe in the perfectibility of man and society and deny the existence of evil. Their itch, after suspending reason, discounting ... «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
6
You can't always get what you want
You can buy books and books on tape and videos and seminars to buttress your belief in your own perfectibility and it is quite possible that you ... «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
7
ObamaCare and America's Death Spiral
... that a belief in perfectibility is not the precedence or more probable, ... nature being fixed while the emotive “believe” deifies “perfectibility”. «American Thinker, Jul 15»
8
Human Cultural Model We Need
Later on, the martyrs and saints were proposed as heroes of the difficult question about the 'perfectibility of man.' In his inaugural address in ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
9
Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik: A polemic against racism and identity …
... Enlightenment's attitude toward human difference was permeated by the revolutionary ideas of social equality and the perfectibility of man. «World Socialist Web Site, Jun 15»
10
Concerning the "Ecological" Path to Salvation
Christians, therefore, should be in no danger of first supposing that perfectibility can be attained in human societies, and then advocating the ... «Catholic World Report, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Perfectibility [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/perfectibility>. May 2024 ».
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