Usually means: Lack of necessary skills, ability.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word incompetence:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetence: Merriam-Webster
  2. incompetence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incompetence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incompetence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incompetence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incompetence, incompetence: Wordnik
  7. incompetence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incompetence: Wiktionary
  9. incompetence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. incompetence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. incompetence: Dictionary.com
  12. incompetence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Incompetence (book), Incompetence (law), Incompetence (novel), Incompetence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Incompetence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. incompetence: Rhymezone
  16. Incompetence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. incompetence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. incompetence: FreeDictionary.org
  19. incompetence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. incompetence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. incompetence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INCOMPETENCE: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. incompetence: Legal dictionary
  6. incompetence: Financial dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incompetence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. incompetence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. incompetence: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Incompetence: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See incompetences as well.)

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noun:  Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.

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