Definition of "improvableness" []

• Improvability. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Men have not been optimists in the matter of the improvableness of humanity."
• "But the thoughts of men have widened with the process of the suns, and they have found that there are developments in other races than the Greeks, in which men will show an improvableness that proves that God's ways in endowing men have been higher than their ways."
• "Materialistic solutions in the science of man, humanitarian ends in legislation, naturalism in art, active faith in the improvableness of institutions -- all these are once more the marks of speculation and the guiding ideas of practical energy."