INCOMPETENCIES

Noun

incompetencies

plural of incompetency

Source: Wiktionary


INCOMPETENCY

In*com"pe*tence, In*com"pe*tency, n. Etym: [Cf. F. incompétence.]

1. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." Gladstone.

2. (Law)

Definition: Want 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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