Competent vs Knowing - What's the difference?
competent | knowing | Related terms |
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
(legal) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Adequate for the purpose
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
* South
Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
Suggestive of private knowledge.
Deliberate
The act or condition of having knowledge.
* 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
Competent is a related term of knowing.
As adjectives the difference between competent and knowing
is that competent is competent (able) while knowing is possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.As a verb knowing is
.As a noun knowing is
the act or condition of having knowledge.competent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
- For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
- judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
- "For if [birds] had been Viviparous , the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been so big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them "
Quotations
* "I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922 * "That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922knowing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
- a knowing rascal
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* knowinglyNoun
(en noun)- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings .