01 n. The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a part…
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The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
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Lack 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.(Law)
Syn.
incompetence. — Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.