Errancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Errancy \Er"ran*cy\, n. [L. errantia.]
     A wandering; state of being in error.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  errancy
       n 1: (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted
            doctrine; especially disagreement with Papal
            infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic
            Church"
       2: fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err
          [ant: {inerrancy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "errancy":
     aberrancy, aberration, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy,
     distortion, errability, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness,
     fallacy, fallibility, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw,
     flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion,
     liability to error, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing,
     misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, peccancy, perversion,
     self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, unorthodoxy, untrueness,
     untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrongness