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Incapacity vs Incompetency - What's the difference?

incapacity | incompetency | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between incapacity and incompetency

is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while incompetency is the condition of being incompetent.

incapacity

English

Noun

(incapacities)
  • The lack of a capacity; an inability
  • * 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
  • So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;

    incompetency

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The condition of being incompetent