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incompetences

incompetences is the plural of incompetence.

Meaning of incompetence

Noun

incompetence (usually uncountable, plural incompetences)

  1. (usually) An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
    • ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Questions about incompetences

What is incompetences the plural of?
Incompetences is the plural of incompetence.

Words near incompetences in the dictionary

  1. incompatibly
  2. incompendious
  3. incompensable
  4. incompensated
  5. incompetence
  6. incompetences
  7. incompetencies
  8. incompetency
  9. incompetent
  10. incompetently
  11. incompetentness

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