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fallibility

noun
/fæləˈbɪləti/US

Etymology

From fallible + -ity.

  1. derived from fallere — “to deceive”
  2. derived from fallibilis — “liable to err, also deceitful”
  3. inherited from fallible
  4. suffixed as fallibility — “fallible + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being prone to error.

  2. An error-generating characteristic.

    • Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fallibility. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA