'Infallibility' definitions:
Definition of 'infallibility'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of never making an error [ant: fallibility]
Definition of 'Infallibility'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infallibility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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