Forcefulness vs Competence - What's the difference?
forcefulness | competence | Related terms |
(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.
As nouns the difference between forcefulness and competence
is that forcefulness is the characteristic or quality of being forceful while competence is the quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.competence
English
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- 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.
