Usually means: Inability to perform tasks adequately.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word incompetency:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetency: Merriam-Webster
  2. incompetency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incompetency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incompetency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incompetency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incompetency, incompetency: Wordnik
  7. incompetency: Wiktionary
  8. incompetency: Dictionary.com
  9. incompetency: Rhymezone
  10. Incompetency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. incompetency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. incompetency: FreeDictionary.org
  13. incompetency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. incompetency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Incompetency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. incompetency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. incompetency: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. incompetency: Legal dictionary
  7. incompetency: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incompetency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Incompetency: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. incompetency: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (incompetency)

▸ noun:  The condition of being incompetent.

Similar:
incompetence, incompetentness, noncompetence, incapability, inadequacy, inadeptness, dyscompetence, ineptitude, incapacity, ineptness, more...

Types:
ineptitude, incompetence, ineptness, doltishness, foolishness, stupidity, imbecility, more...

Adjectives:
mental, own, aortic, mitral, utter, velopharyngeal, general, relative, gross, tricuspid, legal

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Similar:
incompetence, incompetentness, noncompetence, incapability, inadequacy, inadeptness, dyscompetence, ineptitude, incapacity, ineptness, more...

Types:
ineptitude, incompetence, ineptness, doltishness, foolishness, stupidity, imbecility, more...

Adjectives:
mental, own, aortic, mitral, utter, velopharyngeal, general, relative, gross, tricuspid, legal



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