perfectibility

1. 1.

   the capability of becoming perfect

   “he believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man”

   Antonymsimperfectibility

   Broadercapability

Other forms of perfectibility

plural

perfectibilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perfectibility

What does perfectibility mean?

perfectibility means "the capability of becoming perfect".

How many syllables are in perfectibility?

perfectibility has 6 syllables: per-fec-ti-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is the opposite of perfectibility?

The recorded antonyms are imperfectibility.

Is perfectibility a common word?

perfectibility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.