INFALLIBILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of never making an error

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("infallibility" is a kind of...):

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness (the quality of being dependable or reliable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infallibility"):

inerrancy ((Christianity) exemption from error)

papal infallibility (belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality)

Antonym:

fallibility (the likelihood of making errors)

Derivation:

infallible (incapable of failure or error)