Competence vs Usefulness - What's the difference?
competence | usefulness |
(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 :
(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 :
A sustainable income.
* Alexander Pope
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
(countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful
As nouns the difference between competence and usefulness
is that competence is skill while usefulness is the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful.competence
English
Noun
- Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
- What professional competences do science teachers need?
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
- “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.”
- 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 alsoAntonyms
* inability * ineptitude * incompetenceReferences
*usefulness
English
Noun
(-)- The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.