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Corrigibility is a related term of corrigible.


As a noun corrigibility

is the quality or state of being corrigible.

As an adjective corrigible is

able to be corrected or set right.

corrigibility

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being corrigible.

    • Antonyms

    * incorrigibility

    See also

    * correctability

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    corrigible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be corrected or set right.
  • (obsolete) Submissive to correction; docile.
    • Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
    • He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
  • (obsolete) Having power to correct; corrective.
    • The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (able to be corrected) correctable

    Antonyms

    * incorrigible

    Related terms

    * corrigibility

    See also

    * correctable