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incompetency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun incompetency has 1 sense
- incompetency(n = noun.attribute) incompetence - lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications; Array is a kind of inability, unfitness
Derived forms adjective incompetent2, adjective incompetent4, adjective incompetent3
CIDE DICTIONARY
incompetency, n. [Cf. F. incompétence.].
- 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. Gladstone. [1913 Webster]
- 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.
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