INCOMPETENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incompetency mean? 

• INCOMPETENCY (noun)
  The noun INCOMPETENCY has 1 sense:

1. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

  Familiarity information: INCOMPETENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMPETENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

incompetence; incompetency

Hypernyms ("incompetency" is a kind of...):

inability; unfitness (lacking the power to perform)

Derivation:

incompetent (not qualified or suited for a purpose)

incompetent (not doing a good job)

incompetent (showing lack of skill or aptitude)

 Context examples 

I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)