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Definition of Incompetence
1. Noun. Lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications.
Generic synonyms: Inability, Unfitness
Antonyms: Competence
Derivative terms: Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent
2. Noun. Inability of a part or organ to function properly.
Definition of Incompetence
1. n. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
Definition of Incompetence
1. Noun. Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incompetence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Incompetence
1. Physical or mental inadequacy or insufficiency. Origin: L. Competens = sufficient (13 Nov 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompetence
Literary usage of Incompetence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the heart by James Mackenzie (1908)
"Aortic incompetence. 217. Prognosis in valvular affections ... Tricuspid
incompetence—Although actual disease of the valves is rare, incompetence of the ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"Where a servant has knowledge of the incompetence of a fellow-servant, and,
continuing in the master's employment, is injured by reason of such incompetence ..."
3. Diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta by Byrom Bramwell (1884)
"The diastolic murmur indicative of pulmonary incompetence might be readily mistaken
for the diastolic murmur of aortic regurgitation, since the latter is so ..."
4. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... the must constant —Supposed incompetence of natural selection to account for
the incipient stages of useful structures—Causes which interfere with the ..."
5. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1853)
"A fourth characteristic of our social condition incompetence is a natural
consequence and complement of the of political preceding; the incompetence of the ..."
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