Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The condition of being incompetent.

More definitions
  • lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The minister was dismissed due to incompetency.

  2. Underscoring his incompetency, the president misspelled "education" in his executive order.

  3. He either gets discharged from his positions because of incompetency or he leaves because of his nomadic tendencies.

Forms

plural: incompetencies
Singularincompetency

uncountable

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications:incompetence

Word family

1 related words

See also

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