perfectibility
- n the capability of becoming perfect
he believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man
- This was particularly true in the 18th century, with the Age of Reason's belief in the perfectibility of human nature and the near inevitability of progress.
- In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility.
- This perfectibility is being achieved through technology, science, politics, social reform, education.