Definitions for incompetency
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetence, incompetencynoun

   lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incompetencynoun

   The condition of being incompetent

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incompetencynoun

   Inability; want of adequate ability or qualification.

   Etymology: incompetence, Fr. from incompetent.

   Our not being able to discern the motion of a shadow of a dial-plate, or that of the index upon a clock, ought to make us sensible of the incompetency of our eyes to discern some motions of natural bodies incomparably slower than these. Boyle.

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1. incompetency

   Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various actions. They include common abilities, like walking, and rare abilities, like performing a double backflip. Abilities are intelligent powers: they are guided by the person's intention and executing them successfully results in an action, which is not true for all types of powers. They are closely related to but not identical with various other concepts, such as disposition, know-how, aptitude, talent, potential, and skill. Theories of ability aim to articulate the nature of abilities. Traditionally, the conditional analysis has been the most popular approach. According to it, having an ability means one would perform the action in question if one tried to do so. On this view, Michael Phelps has the ability to swim 200 meters in under 2 minutes because he would do so if he tried to. This approach has been criticized in various ways. Some counterexamples involve cases in which the agent is physically able to do something but unable to try, due to a strong aversion. In order to avoid these and other counterexamples, various alternative approaches have been suggested. Modal theories of ability, for example, focus on what is possible for the agent to do. Other suggestions include defining abilities in terms of dispositions and potentials. An important distinction among abilities is between general abilities and specific abilities. General abilities are abilities possessed by an agent independent of their situation while specific abilities concern what an agent can do in a specific situation. So while an expert piano player always has the general ability to play various piano pieces, they lack the corresponding specific ability in a situation where no piano is present. Another distinction concerns the question of whether successfully performing an action by accident counts as having the corresponding ability. In this sense, an amateur hacker may have the effective ability to hack his boss's email account, because they may be lucky and guess the password correctly, but not the corresponding transparent ability, since they are unable to reliably do so. The concept of abilities and how they are to be understood is relevant for various related fields. Free will, for example, is often understood as the ability to do otherwise. The debate between compatibilism and incompatibilism concerns the question whether this ability can exist in a world governed by deterministic laws of nature. Autonomy is a closely related concept, which can be defined as the ability of individual or collective agents to govern themselves. Whether an agent has the ability to perform a certain action is important for whether they have a moral obligation to perform this action. If they possess it, they may be morally responsible for performing it or for failing to do so. Like in the free will debate, it is also relevant whether they had the ability to do otherwise. A prominent theory of concepts and concept possession understands these terms in relation to abilities. According to it, it is required that the agent possess both the ability to discriminate between positive and negative cases and the ability to draw inferences to related concepts.

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1. incompetency

   Incompetency generally refers to a lack of ability, skills, or qualifications to perform a task or job adequately. It can also refer to a lack of capacity or fitness to understand the nature and effects of one's actions. In a legal context, incompetency can mean the inability to comprehend and participate effectively in court proceedings or manage one's own affairs.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incompetencynoun

   the quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts

2. Incompetencynoun

   want 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

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of incompetency in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of incompetency in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of incompetency in a Sentence

1. Joan Rivers:

   What ultimately guided me was my unwavering belief that no family should ever have to go through what my mother, Cooper and I have been through, the level of medical mismanagement, incompetency, disrespect and outrageous behavior is shocking and frankly, almost incomprehensible.

2. Rebecca Woodman:

   Though he has long accepted responsibility for his crime, he no longer has a rational understanding of why the government plans to execute him, by staying Wes's execution, the court's action signals the importance of allowing Wesley Ira Purkey to present the extensive, available medical evidence demonstrating Wesley Ira Purkey incompetency to be executed.

3. Joan Rivers:

   The level of medical mismanagement, incompetency, disrespect and outrageous behavior is shocking and frankly, almost incomprehensible.

4. Lee Iacocca:

   Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

5. Scott Schieman:

   Higher levels of authority come with a lot more interpersonal baggage, such as supervising people or deciding whether they get promotions, with that type of responsibility, you start to take things like incompetency and people not doing their jobs more personally, and it bothers you more.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=incompetency
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Incompetency
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=incompetency
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompetency
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incompetency