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Improvability

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Im`prov`a`bil´i`ty
n.1.The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.
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They are conservatives in the sense of doubting the perfectibility, or even the substantial improvability, of human nature; yet they are optimists regarding the benefits that will accompany the growth of commerce and the institutions that support it.
The four schoolmasters by Brands, H.W.W. / The National Interest
Almost all of Jonathan Demme's major films, from Citizens Band to Beloved, express a belief in the unpredictability and improvability of human nature.
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This is a particularly striking theme in American society, where the very foundation of the democratic experiment was the belief in the improvability - indeed, the perfectibility - of all human beings.
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