Infallibility

3 definitions found

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

  Infallibility \In*fal`li*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
     infaillibilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from
     error; inerrability.
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           Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing
           faculty.                                 --Tillotson.
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     {Papal infallibility} (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope
        can not, when acting in his official character of supreme
        pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or
        rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed
        by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infallibility
       n : the quality of never making an error [ant: {fallibility}]

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

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "infallibility":
     absolute certainty, absoluteness, assurance, assuredness,
     certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, chastity,
     dead certainty, defectlessness, definiteness, determinacy,
     determinateness, faultlessness, finish, flawlessness,
     immaculateness, impeccability, ineluctability, inerrability,
     inerrancy, inevitability, infallibilism, necessity, nonambiguity,
     noncontingency, perfection, positiveness, predestination,
     predetermination, probatum, proved fact, purity, sinlessness,
     spotlessness, stainlessness, sureness, surety, taintlessness,
     truth, unambiguity, unequivocalness, univocity, unmistakableness