perfectible

[ per-fek-tuh-buh l ]

/ pərˈfɛk tə bəl /

capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.

Origin of perfectible

1625–35; < French < Medieval Latin perfectibilis. See perfect, -ible

per·fect·i·bil·ist, noun per·fect·i·bil·i·ty, noun non·per·fect·i·bil·i·ty, noun non·per·fect·i·ble, adjective

self-per·fect·i·bil·i·ty, noun un·per·fect·i·ble, adjective

It babbles incoherently of perfectibility, and goes straightway to the bad.

A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. |William Chauncey Bartlett
If he denied miracles, he yet had a fond faith in the perfectibility of the species.

Benjamin Franklin |Frank Luther Mott
I cannot finish this subject without making a remark upon creation and its perfectibility.

Olla Podrida |Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
He laughs at the perfectibility of the species, and holds that 'all things move, not in progress but in a ceaseless round.'

Hours in a Library |Leslie Stephen

Now it is a Perfectibility lying in the future; now a Perfection existing eternally.

Appearances |Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

perfectible

/ (pəˈfɛktəbəl) /

capable of becoming or being made perfect

perfectibility, noun