Incompetence

Quick meaning: Incompetence is a noun meaning An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.

Meaning

An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.

Example Sentences

The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence, favoritism, and sabotage.

Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.

... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck

Word Forms

• incompetences

Synonyms for incompetence

Depending on context, synonyms include incompetency.

Antonyms for incompetence

Common opposites include competence, competency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incompetency, ineptitude, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, inadequacy, incapacity.

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