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Competence vs Competitivity - What's the difference?

competence | competitivity |

As nouns the difference between competence and competitivity

is that competence is skill while competitivity is competitiveness.

competence

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
  • * 2005 , Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation :
    • Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
  • (countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
  • * 1961 , National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education :
    • What professional competences do science teachers need?
  • A sustainable income.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
    • “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence , it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
  • (countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
    • That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.

    Synonyms

    * ability * competency * nous * savoir-faire * knack (colloq.) * aptitude * See also

    Antonyms

    * inability * ineptitude * incompetence

    Related terms

    * compete * competition * competentness

    References

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    competitivity

    English

    Noun

    (competitivities)
  • competitiveness
  • *1962 , "Britain's Export Trade with Canada. Canadian Studies in Economics: No. 12" (Review), Angus Maddison, The Economic Journal , Vol. 72, No. 286. (Jun., 1962), pp. 395, URL: JSTOR
  • *:It would throw further light on the inter-relation of competitivity and growth if we had a similar structural analysis of British performance in a more slowly performing market.
  • *2000 , Sylvain Gandon and Yannis Michalakis, "Evolution of Parasite Virulence against Qualitative or Quantitative Host Resistance," Proceedings: Biological Sciences , page 986, Vol. 267, No. 1447. (May 22, 2000), pp. 985-990, URL: JSTOR.
  • *:Parasites compete within hosts and their level of competitivity is v .
  • *2002 , Horst Lüddecke, "Association between Breeding Cycle and Male Body Condition in Hyla labialis," Journal of Herpetology , page 613, Vol. 36, No. 4. (Dec., 2002), pp. 607-614.,
  • *:Because factors like the social environment at the pond and competitivity for females may also play a role in a male's decision to stay or leave,the rules for change in individual behavior may be more complex and more plastic than those that guide the start and end of the annual reproductive cycle.