'Incompetence' definitions:
Definition of 'incompetence'
From: WordNet
noun
Lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence, competency]
noun
Inability of a part or organ to function properly
Definition of 'Incompetence'
From: GCIDE
- Incompetence \In*com"pe*tence\, Incompetency \In*com"pe*tency\, n. [Cf. F. incomp['e]tence.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." --Gladstone.
- Syn: incompetence. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.
- Syn: Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incompetence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ad lib,
- baseness,
- deficiency,
- disability,
- disablement,
- disqualification,
- extemporaneousness,
- failure,
- falling short,
- faultiness,
- fewness,
- imbecility,
- imperfection,
- improvisation,
- inability,
- inadeptness,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inattentiveness,
- incapability,
- incapacitation,
- incapacity,
- incompetency,
- indexterity,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficiency,
- ineptitude,
- ineptness,
- infancy,
- inferiority,
- insufficiency,
- insufficientness,
- lack of preparation,
- legal incapacity,
- littleness,
- maladjustment,
- maladroitness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- minority,
- none to spare,
- nonfulfillment,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- nonsatisfaction,
- pedestrianism,
- pettiness,
- planlessness,
- rustiness,
- shabbiness,
- short supply,
- skill-lessness,
- smallness,
- subnormality,
- thoughtlessness,
- too late,
- too little,
- triviality,
- unaptness,
- uncleverness,
- undeftness,
- undexterousness,
- undextrousness,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unintelligence,
- unpreparedness,
- unproficiency,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unschooledness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- untrainedness,
- uselessness,
- vulgarity,
- vulnerability,
- wardship