Incompetence(n.) Alt. of Incompetency
Incompetency(n.) 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.
Incompetency(n.) 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.
Incompetent(a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
Incompetent(a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
Incompetent(a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.
Incompetently(adv.) In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.
Incompetibility(n.) See Incompatibility.
Incompetible(a.) See Incompatible.
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